Seven Kisses in a Row (5 page)

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SEVEN KISSES IN A ROW

Text copyright © 1983 by Patricia MacLachlan

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

MacLachlan, Patricia.

Seven kisses in a row.

p.    cm.

“A Charlotte Zolotow book.”

Summary: Emma learns to accept “different strokes for different folks” when her aunt and uncle come to take care of her and her brother.

ISBN 0-06-024084-9 (lib. bdg.) – ISBN 0-06-440231-2 (pbk.)

EPub Edition March 2013 ISBN 9780062285775

[1. Aunts–Fiction. 2. Uncles–Fiction. 3. Family life–Fiction.] I. Title.

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