Osprey Island

FIRST ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION, JUNE 2005

Copyright © 2004 by Thisbe Nissen

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Grateful acknowledgment is made to the National Geographic Society for permission to reprint an excerpt from “The Endangered Osprey” by Roger Tory Peterson (National Geographic, July 1969).

The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:

Nissen, Thisbe, [date]

Osprey Island / by Thisbe Nissen. —1st ed.

p. cm.

1. Single mothers—Fiction. 2. Custody of children—Fiction.

3. Accident victims—Fiction. 4.Community life—Fiction.

5. Summer resorts—Fiction. 6. Islands—Fiction. 1. Title.

PS3564.179085 2004

813’.54—dc22 2004040843

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