Text Copyright © 2017 Courtney Sheinmel
Illustrations Copyright © 2017 Jennifer A. Bell
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data • Names: Sheinmel, Courtney, author. • Bell,
Jennifer A., illustrator. • Title: Broken birthday • written by Courtney Sheinmel ; illustrated by
Jennifer A. Bell. • Description: Ann Arbor, MI : Sleeping Bear Press, [2017] • Series: Stella Batts;
book 10 • Summary: “Stella and her family have special plans to celebrate her ninth birthday
but everything changes when Stella falls and breaks her leg at school”-- Provided by publisher.
• Identifiers: LCCN 2016026744 • ISBN 9781585369218 (hard cover) • ISBN 9781585369225
(paper back) • Subjects: | CYAC: Fractures--Fiction. | Friendship--Fiction. • Birthdays--Fiction.
• Family life--Fiction. • Classification: LCC PZ7.S54124 Bro 2017 • DDC [Fic]--dc23 • LC record
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To brave kids everywhere, especially Rachael Rose and Daniel Gregory
—Courtney
