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Authors: Aaron Starmer

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Contents

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

 

November 19, 1989

But First, Another Tale

In a Year Before Years

Much Later

Chapter 1

1989

Chapter 2

1981 to 1983

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

1988

Chapter 5

Potoweet's Story

Chapter 6

1984

Chapter 7

November 19, 1989

So Let's Start Another

In Another Year Before Years

Much Later

Chapter 8

1989

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

1988

Chapter 11

1987

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

1988

Chapter 14

November 19, 1989

Much Like This One

In a Year in a Dark Age

A While Later

Chapter 15

The Maestro's Story

Chapter 16

1987

Chapter 17

1989

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Fiona's Story

Chapter 20

Fiona's Story: Coda

Chapter 21

November 19, 1989

But Perhaps
This
Was the Beginning

In the Year 1983

Six Years (or Eons) Later (Depending on How You Look at It)

Chapter 22

1986

Chapter 23

November 19 and 20, 1989

 

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Copyright

 

Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers

175 Fifth Avenue, New York 10010

Copyright © 2015 Aaron Starmer

All rights reserved

First hardcover edition, 2015

eBook edition, March 2015

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Starmer, Aaron, 1976–

    The whisper / Aaron Starmer.

        pages cm. — (The Riverman trilogy; 2)

    Summary: Twelve-year-old Alistair continues his quest to find his missing friend, Fiona, in Aquavania, a world where wishes can nearly come true, but he learns that the Whisper, once a boy named Charlie from his own world, has plans for Alistair and has used Fiona to try to get to him.

    ISBN 978-0-374-36311-6 (hardback)

    ISBN 978-0-374-36312-3 (ebook)

    [1.   Friendship—Fiction.  2.   Fantasy.]  I.   Title.

    PZ7.S7972Whi 2015

    [Fic]—dc23

2014013168

eISBN 9780374363123

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