As soon as Fern stepped away from Queen Mab, there was a murmuring in the crowd, as if all the fairies were speaking with one voice. At first it sounded like they were saying, “Go! Go!” But then Clara and Rosy and Sylva—and, of course, Goldie—heard more clearly what their fairy friends were saying.
“Gold-ie! Gold-ie!” came the cheer.
“Listen!” said Clara.
“I’m listening!” cried Goldie.
“GOLD-IE! GOLD-IE! GOLD-IE!”
About the Author and Illustrator
Photo by Betsy Morrell
MARGARET McNAMARA is the Christopher Award-winning author of more than two dozen books for young readers, including the Robin Hill School series. The Fairy Bell Sisters series is inspired not only by her love of the classic sisterhood novel Little Women but by her own experiences growing up with older sisters (and a baby brother). Margaret and her family live in New York City, but they spend part of their summer on an island in Maine very much like Sheepskerry Island.
JULIA DENOS has illustrated several children’s books, including Just Being Audrey, Grandma’s Gloves, Dotty, and I Had a Favorite Dress. She received her BFA in illustration from the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. The oldest of five sisters (and a baby brother), Julia lives in Massachusetts. You can visit her online at www.juliadenos.com.
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Cover art © 2013 by Julia Denos
Cover design by Erin Fitzsimmons
Copyright
In the spirit of J. M. Barrie, who created Peter Pan
and Tinker Bell, the author has donated a portion of
the proceeds from the sale of this book to the
Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Balzer + Bray is an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
Rosy and the Secret Friend
Text copyright © 2013 by Margaret McNamara
Illustrations copyright © 2013 by Julia Denos
FAIRY BELL SISTERS #2: ROSY AND THE SECRET FRIEND. Copyright © 2013 by Margaret McNamara. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
McNamara, Margaret.
Rosy and the secret friend / Margaret McNamara; illustrations by Julia Denos. — 1st ed.
p. cm. — (The fairy Bell sisters)
Summary: “Usually, when the Summer People take over the cottages of Sheepskerry Island, the Fairy Bell Sisters go into hiding, but when kind-hearted Rosy realizes that a Summer Child named Louisa needs help, she does the unthinkable and befriends her”—provided by publisher.
ISBN 978-0-06-222805-5 (hardcover bdg. : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-0-06-222804-8 (pbk. bdg. : alk. paper)
EPub Edition March 2013 ISBN 9780062228062
[1. Fairies—Fiction. 2. Sisters—Fiction. 3. Friendship—Fiction. 4. Secrets—Fiction.] I. Denos, Julia, ill. II. Title.
PZ7.M47879343Ros 2013
2012038106
[Fic]—dc23
CIP
AC
13 14 15 16 17 LP/BR 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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