The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World (26 page)

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E. L. Konigsburg is one of the most celebrated writers of books for children and young adults and the only author to have a Newbery Medal and a Newbery Honor in the same year. Her first two books, From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth, were Newbery Medal and Newbery Honor books respectively in 1968. She subsequently won her second Newbery Medal almost thirty years later for The View from Saturday.

Her many acclaimed books include The Second Mrs. Gioconda, A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver, and Silent to the Bone.

Also by E. L. Konigsburg

Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth

From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

Altogether, One at a Time

A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver

The Dragon in the Ghetto Caper

The Second Mrs. Gioconda

My Father's Daughter

About the B'nai Bagels (George)

Throwing Shadows

Journey to an 800 Number

Up From Jericho Tel

Samuel Todd's Book of Great Colors

Samuel Todd's Book of Great Inventions

Amy Elizabeth Explores Bloomingdale's

T-Backs,T-Shirts,COAT, and Suit

TalkTalk: A Children's Book Author Speaks to Grown-ups

The View From Saturday

Silent to the Bone

The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place

This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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Copyright © 2007 by E. L. Konigsburg

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Book design by Mike Rosamilia

The text for this book is set in Bembo.

First Edition Paperbacks edition March 2009

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

Konigsburg, E. L.

The mysterious edge of the heroic world / E. L. Konigsburg.

p. cm.

“Ginee Seo Books”

Summary:Armando moves to a new town with a dream.He wants to discover something and he wants a friend to share his search.

[1. Friendship—Fiction. 2.Neighborhood—Fiction.Heroes and heroines—Fiction.]

[Fic]—dc 22

2007299434

ISBN 13: 978-1-4169-4972-5 (hc.) ISBN 10: 1-4169-4972-0 (hc.)

ISBN 13: 978-1-4169-5353-1 (pbk.) ISBN 10: 1-4169-5353-1 (pbk.)