This is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogues are products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

THE TORN SKIRT. Copyright © 2001, 2002 by Rebecca Godfrey. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, 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.

The Library of Congress has catalogued the previous edition as follows:

Godfrey, Rebecca.

The torn skirt / Rebecca Godfrey.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-0-06-009485-0

1. Teenage girls—Fiction. 2. Victoria (B.C.)—Fiction. 3. Female friendship—Fiction. 4. Abandoned children—Fiction. 5. Parental deprivation—Fiction. I. Title.

PR9199.4.G63 T67 2002

813’.6—dc21         2002072579

EPub Edition © March 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-190915-3

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