Wherever Nina Lies (22 page)
To my fabulous agent Lydia Wills and her assistant Alyssa Reuben.
To Abby McAden and Morgan Matson, for being so smart and fantastic to work with. And to Cheryl Weisman, Christopher Stengel, and Elizabeth Parisi at Scholastic.
To Vicky Newman for her gorgeous drawings.
To Cheryl Weingarten and Donald Weingarten for being my mom and my dad! I love you both very much!
And to my brilliant, funny, and patient editor (and friend) Aimee Friedman. I am so happy to have gotten to work with you on this. Thank you for being so incredibly lovely at every step of the way.
Copyright © 2009 by Lynn Weingarten
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Weingarten, Lynn.
Wherever Nina lies / Lynn Weingarten.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: Two years after the disappearance of her older sister,
sixteen-year-old Ellie goes on a quest to find her.ISBN-13: 978-0-545-06631-0 (alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 0-545-06631-X (alk. paper)
[1. Missing persons—Fiction. 2. Sisters—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.W43638Wh 2009
[Fic]—dc22
2008021527
Jacket photograph © 2008 Michael Frost
Jacket design by Christopher Stengel
First edition, February 2009
Interior illustrations by Vicky Newman
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