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he train station at Pebbleton, dark and sooty though it was, glistened in the mist. Electric lamps above the platform cast their light upon a thousand reflecting surfaces: the pud dles along the tracks, the streaked windows of the station house, the umbrellas hoisted over huddled, indistinct figures on the platform. To a person of whimsical mind, the scene might resemble something from a tale, a magical gathering in a dark wood, the umbrellas looming like toadstools over fairy folk. There was, in fact, such a person watching from the
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental. Copyright 2012 by Trenton Lee Stewart Illustrations copyright 2012 by Diana Sudyka All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group 237 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Visit our website at www.lbkids.com Little, Brown and Company is a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc. The Little, Brown name and logo are trademarks of Hachette Book Group, Inc. The publisher is not responsible for websites (or their content) that are not owned by the publisher. First Edition: April 2012 Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Stewart, Trenton Lee. The extraordinary education of Nicholas Benedict / by Trenton Lee Stewart ; illustrated by Diana Sudyka. 1st ed. p. cm. Megan Tingley Books. Summary: Nineyearold Nicholas Benedict, an orphan afflicted with an unfortunate nose and with narcolepsy, is sent to a new orphanage where he encounters vicious bullies, selfish adults, strange circumstances, and a mystery that could change his life forever. ISBN 9780316176194 [1. Adventure and adventurersFiction. 2. OrphanagesFiction. 3. OrphansFiction. 4. NarcolepsyFiction. 5. BulliesFiction. 6. GeniusFiction. 7. Mystery and detective stories.] I. Sudyka, Diana, ill. II. Title. PZ7.S8513Ext 2012 [Fic]dc23 2011031690 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 RRDC Printed in the United States of America
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