“Hello, everyone . . . sorry I’m late . . . I went as fast as I could. . . . Where’s that Ant Queen? Let’s get this . . . final showdown rolling!”
It’s Banu the sloth.
Acknowledgments
Many thanks to the Lost Rainforest’s terrific editors, Ben Rosenthal and Melissa Miller, to my agent, Richard Pine, and to my faithful manuscript readers: Eric Zahler, Barbara Schrefer, Daphne Grab, Nicole Melleby, Jill Santopolo, Marianna Baer, Anne Heltzel, and Marie Rutkoski.
About the Author
Courtesy Eliot Schrefer
ELIOT SCHREFER is a New York Times bestselling author, has twice been a finalist for the National Book Award in Young People’s Literature, and has won the Green Earth Book Award and the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award for Children’s Literature. His novels include The Lost Rainforest: Mez’s Magic, Endangered, Threatened, Rescued, and two books in the Spirit Animals series. He lives in New York City, is on the faculty of the Hamline University and Fairleigh Dickinson University MFA in creative writing programs, and is the children’s book reviewer for USA Today. Visit him online at www.eliotschrefer.com.
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Katherine Tegen Books is an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
THE LOST RAINFOREST #2: GOGI’S GAMBIT. Text copyright © 2019 by HarperCollins Publishers. Illustrations copyright © 2019 by Emilia Dziubak. 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 hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Schrefer, Eliot, author.
Title: Gogi’s gambit / Eliot Schrefer.
Description: First edition. | New York, NY : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019] | Series: The lost rainforest ; [2] | Summary: “Gogi and the other shadowwalkers race to save their magical rainforest home before the Ant Queen makes it her own”—Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018013965 | ISBN 9780062491114 (hardback)
Subjects: | CYAC: Monkeys—Fiction. | Rain forest animals—Fiction. | Rain forests—Fiction. | Magic—Fiction. | Fantasy.
Classification: LCC PZ7.S37845 Gog 2019 | DDC [Fic]—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018013965
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Digital Edition FEBRUARY 2019 ISBN: 978-0-06-249117-6
Print ISBN: 978-0-06-249111-4
1819202122PC/LSCH10987654321
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