The author would like to thank Carol Lynn Kearney, senior adjunct in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Adelphi University, for her careful attention to the manuscript, and advice.
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 © 2011 by Patricia Reilly Giff
Interior illustrations copyright © 2011 by Alasdair Bright
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Giff, Patricia Reilly.
Flying feet / Patricia Reilly Giff ; illustrated by Alasdair Bright. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: Charlie often thinks of inventions that seldom work, but his latest idea just might be able to help Jake the Sweeper get rid of a big pile of trash and save “Come as a Character” day, too.
eISBN: 978-0-375-89637-8
[1. Schools—Fiction. 2. Inventors and inventions—Fiction.]
I. Bright, Alasdair, ill. II. Title.
PZ7.G3626Fly 2011
[E]—dc22
2010022645
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Love to Mari-joy’s boys,
Will and Jack O’Leary—P.R.G.
To my good friend Lucky Jacobs—A.B.