Twenty-four
Twenty-five
Twenty-six
Twenty-seven
Twenty-eight
Twenty-nine
Thirty
Author’s Note
Photographs
Acknowledgments
Also by Delia Ray
Copyright
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
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Text copyright © 2015 by Delia Ray
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First hardcover edition, 2015
eBook edition, November 2015
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Ray, Delia.
Finding Fortune / Delia Ray. — First edition.
pages cm
Summary: Angry with her mother, twelve-year-old runaway Ren finds an unusual boardinghouse in a nearby ghost town, Fortune, where she meets some interesting people and learns of a forgotten treasure from when the town was famous for buttons made of Mississippi River shells.
ISBN 978-0-374-30065-4 (hardback)
ISBN 978-0-374-30067-8 (e-book)
[1. Boardinghouses—Fiction. 2. Lost and found possessions—Fiction. 3. Family problems—Fiction. 4. Runaways—Fiction. 5. Mystery and detective stories.] I. Title.
PZ7.R2101315Fin 2015
[Fic]—dc23
2014042436
eISBN 9780374300678