The Gravesavers (26 page)
Authors: Sheree Fitch
Tags: #Historical, #Mystery, #Young Adult, #Adventure
Finally, a special child named Julie Lalonde made me
promise
to tell people unicorns were real. There are no unicorns in this book. But during the writing of it, I saw one. I am so grateful for the precious time I had with Julie. Her spirit inspired all of us who knew her. She was the angel by my side during this long voyage of my imagination and often held my hand if not my pen.
The Gravesavers
is a work of fiction partially informed by a real event. It does contain resemblances to people both living and dead. In some instances, I have used real names. Other likenesses might well be coincidental. If I have offended anyone (living or dead), I plead poetic license. I have respectfully but intentionally twisted strands of historical and geographical reality to accommodate the telling of Minn’s story. For anyone wishing authoritative historical facts on the wreck of the SS
Atlantic,
visit the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax, Nova Scotia, The Nova Scotia Provincial Archives, and the SS Atlantic Heritage Park in Terence Bay, Nova Scotia.
ALSO BY SHEREE FITCH
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Merry-Go-Day
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If You Could Wear My Sneakers
There’s a Mouse in My House
If I Were the Moon
No Two Snowflakes
Pocket Rocks
POETRY
In This House Are Many Women
CHAPTER BOOKS
The Hullaballoo Bugaboo Day The Other Author Arthur One More Step
EDUCATIONAL
Writing Maniac
Every Body’s Different on Every Body Street
The Tale of the Hidden Story
Persnickety Pete
PLAYS
Rummabubba Lidmaker of the Snufflewogs
The Monkeys are Back and we’re Out of Bananas
When Dinosaurs Dine by Moonlight
If You Could Wear My Sneakers
Like a Little Candle
COPYRIGHT © 2005 SHEREE FITCH
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THE GRAVESAVERS
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Doubleday Canada edition published 2005
Seal Books edition published December 2006
eISBN: 978-0-385-67250-4
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