Sarah Simpson's Rules for Living (6 page)

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author's imagination or, if real, are used fictitiously.

Copyright © 2008 by Rebecca Rupp
Cover photographs: copyright © 2008 by Stockbyte/Getty Images (girl); copyright © 2008 by Rebecca Grabill/iStockphoto (sticky notes); copyright © 2008 by Davide Fiorenzo De Conti/iStockphoto (kitten) Cover illustration copyright © 2008 by Alison Hess/ iStockphoto (daisy pattern)

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First electronic edition 2012

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

Rupp, Rebecca.
Sarah Simpson's Rules for Living / Rebecca Rupp. — 1st ed.
p.   cm.
Summary: In a journal, twelve-year-old Sarah Simpson records important lists and the daily events of her life at home and in school, beginning one year after her father moved from Vermont to California to divorce her mother and marry someone else.
ISBN 978-0-7636-3220-5 (hardcover)
[1. Interpersonal relations — Fiction. 2. Remarriage — Fiction. 3. Family life — Vermont — Fiction. 4. Lists — Fiction. 5. Schools — Fiction. 6. Diaries — Fiction. 7. Vermont — Fiction.]
I. Title.
PZ7.R8886Sar    2008
[Fic] — dc22     2007034214

ISBN 978-0-7636-6219-6 (electronic)

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