Cheating for the Chicken Man (23 page)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

For information on the poultry business, I wish to thank Carole Morison, a former chicken farm owner and now agricultural consultant; researchers, especially Dr. Keeve Nachman, at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore; and Maryland delegate Tom Hucker who, with his staff, worked tirelessly to get Maryland to be the first state in the country to ban arsenic-containing antibiotics from chicken feed in 2012.

I am also grateful to teachers and students at Chesapeake High School in Pasadena, Maryland, for letting me hang out with them; to Melissa Porter, a probation officer in the Kent County, Maryland, department of juvenile services; and to our family friend, Dee Davis, farmer extraordinaire, who showed me how to operate a tractor and a Bush Hog. As always, I am grateful to my husband and first reader, John; my son, Will, for his technical advice; and my daughter, Hannah, for her help and
inspiration.

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PRISCILLA CUMMINGS:

PRISCILLA CUMMINGS

is the author of eight middle grade and young adult novels, including
A Face First
, an ALA Notable;
Red Kayak
, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults and winner of the Oklahoma Sequoyah and Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Awards;
The Journey Back
; and
Blindsided
, which was named to the Children's Choices list. A former journalist, Ms. Cummings lives in Annapolis, Maryland.

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