If you’d like to know more about Lily Dale and its history, check out the town’s website at www.lilydaleassembly.com or read Lily Dale: The True Story of the Town that Talks to the Dead, by Christine Wicker.
About the Author
Suzanne Harper has written four nonfiction books, numerous newspaper and magazine articles, and several plays. This is her first novel. She earned degrees in English and journalism from the University of Texas at Austin and a master’s degree in writing from the University of Southern California. She has never spoken to a ghost, but she once heard a ghostly cannon boom while standing in a Civil War cemetery. She lives in New York City. You can visit her online at www.suzanneharper.com.
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Credits
Cover art © 2007 by Marcos Chin
Cover photography © 2007 by Symon Chow
Cover design by Paul Zakris
Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. References to real people, events, establishments, organizations, or locales are intended only to provide a sense of authenticity, and are used to advance the fictional narrative. All other characters, and all incidents and dialogue, are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real.
The Secret Life of Sparrow Delaney
Text copyright © 2007 by Suzanne Harper
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Harper, Suzanne.
The secret life of Sparrow Delaney / by Suzanne Harper.
p.cm.
“Greenwillow Books”
Summary: In Lily Dale, New York, a community dedicated to the religion of Spiritualism, tenth-grader Sparrow Delaney, the youngest daughter in an eccentric family of psychics, agonizes over whether or not to reveal her special abilities in order to help a friend.
ISBN 978-0-06-113158-5 (trade bdg.)
ISBN 978-0-06-113159-2 (lib. bdg.)
ISBN 978-0-06-113160-8 (pbk.)
[1. Psychics—Fiction. 2. Family life—Fiction. 3. Lily Dale (N.Y.)—Fiction.]
I. Title.
PZ7.H23197 2007 [Fic] 22 2006041339
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EPub Edition © MARCH 2012 ISBN: 9780062215284
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