The Power Potion (15 page)

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Text copyright © 2010 by Wendelin Van Draanen Parsons
Illustrations copyright © 2010 by Stephen Gilpin

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Van Draanen, Wendelin.
The power potion / by Wendelin Van Draanen ; illustrations by Stephen Gilpin. — 1st ed.
p. cm. — (The Gecko and Sticky)
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Dave and Sticky, his kleptomaniac sidekick gecko, try to keep a special potion from falling into the hands of the diabolical Damien Black.
eISBN: 978-0-375-89622-4
[1. Adventure and adventurers—Fiction. 2. Magic—Fiction. 3. Geckos—Fiction. 4. Lizards—Fiction. 5. Hispanic Americans—Fiction. 6. Humorous stories.] I. Gilpin, Stephen, ill. II. Title.
PZ7.V2857Po 2010
[Fic]—dc22
2009028699

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