The Secret Box (17 page)

Acknowledgments

Writing this story has been a wonderful adventure and I have the amazing editorial team of Melissa Miller, Claudia Gabel, and Lynn Weingarten to thank. Katherine Tegen Books is a lovely place for a writer to call home. Thank you.

About the Author

Before becoming a children's book author,
WHITAKER RINGWALD
was certified as World's Greatest Snowball Maker and developed a nonstick peanut butter formula in conjunction with lauded Ig Nobel scientists. Whitaker spends six months of every year in a deep-sea submersible trying to film live footage of giant squids. But giant squids are hard to come by, so that's where Whitaker gets a lot of writing done.

 

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Credits

Cover art © 2014 by Erwin Madrid

Cover design by Joel Tippie

Copyright

Katherine Tegen Books is an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

 

The Secret Box

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Ringwald, Whitaker.

The secret box / Whitaker Ringwald. — First edition.

pages    cm

Summary: “On her twelfth birthday, Jax Malone receives an odd, unopenable present from an estranged aunt. When Jax and her cousins Ethan and Tyler go on a quest to open the box, they uncover a mystery with magical consequences”— Provided by publisher.

ISBN 978-0-06-221614-4 (hardcover bdg.)

EPUB Edition JANUARY 2014 ISBN 9780062216168

[1. Secrets—Fiction.  2. Magic—Fiction.  3. Families—Fiction.]  I. Title.

PZ7.R4745Se 2014  2013008473

[Fic]—dc23      CIP      AC

 

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FIRST EDITION