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Excerpt from Wandering by Hermann Hesse (Picador, 1972), copyright © Hermann Hesse

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Peters, Andrew, 1965–

Ravenwood/Andrew Peters.
p. cm.

Summary: On Arborium, the last forested island in the future, fourteen-year-old Ark, who lives in a mile-high city set in the treetops, overhears a plot to rob Arborium of its wood, a natural resource more precious than gold.

ISBN 978-0-545-30550-1

[1. Fantasy. 2. Adventure and adventurers — Fiction. 3. Trees — Fiction. 4. Conservation of natural resources — Fiction.] I. Title. PZ7.P4415466Rav 2011 [Fic] — dc22 2010044484

First American edition, August 2011

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