The Crossroads

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 © 2008 by Chris Grabenstein

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Grabenstein, Chris.

The crossroads / Chris Grabenstein.—1st ed.

p. cm.

Summary: When eleven-year-old Zack Jennings moves to Connecticut with his father and new stepmother, they must deal with the ghosts left behind by a terrible accident, as well as another kind of ghost from Zack’s past.

[1. Ghosts—Fiction. 2. Stepmothers—Fiction. 3. Guilt—Fiction. 4. Traffic accidents—Fiction. 5. Moving, Household—Fiction. 6. Family life—Connecticut—Fiction. 7. Connecticut—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.G7487Cro 2008 [Fic]—dc22 2007024803

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