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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Jones, Diana Wynne.

  Earwig and the witch / by Diana Wynne Jones; [illustrator, Paul O. Zelinsky].

  p. cm.

  “Greenwillow Books.”

  Summary: Although an orphan, Earwig has always enjoyed living at St. Morwald’s, where she manages to make everyone do her bidding, but when she is taken in by a foster parents who are actually a witch and a demon, she has a hard time trying to turn the situation to her advantage.

  ISBN 978-0-06-207511-6 (trade bdg.)

  [1. Orphans—Fiction. 2. Witches—Fiction. 3. Magic—Fiction. 4. Cats—Fiction.]

  I. Zelinsky, Paul O., ill. II. Title.

  PZ7.J684Ear 2011 [Fic]—dc 222010048999

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  First Edition

  EPub Edition © January 2012 ISBN: 9780062075147

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