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    Maybe Yes, Maybe No, Maybe Maybe
    Maybe Yes, Maybe No, Maybe Maybe
    Maybe Yes, Maybe No, Maybe Maybe
    Ebook66 pages31 minutes

    Maybe Yes, Maybe No, Maybe Maybe

    By Susan Patron and Abigail Halpin

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    the jam in the sandwich

    Sometimes that's how PK feels, squeezed in between her supersmart older sister, Megan, and her superadorable younger sister, Rabbit -- especially now, with Megan almost a teenager and becoming impossible, and Rabbit worrying about going to kindergarten. Why can't people stay the same?

    But there's an even bigger change afoot: Mama has decided they should move to a larger apartment. How can they leave behind the big blue chair that's almost like a member of the family? But maybe, just maybe, in a new home PK can find out what makes her as special as her sisters.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAtheneum Books for Young Readers
    Release dateJan 6, 2009
    ISBN9781439158340
    Maybe Yes, Maybe No, Maybe Maybe
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    Susan Patron

    Susan Patron specialized in Children's Services for 35 years at the Los Angeles Public Library before retiring in 2007, the same year her novel The Higher Power of Lucky was awarded the John Newbery Medal. As the library's Juvenile Materials Collection Development Manager, she trained and mentored children's librarians in 72 branches. Patron has served on many book award committees, including the Caldecott and Laura Ingalls Wilder Committees of the American Library Association. She is currently a member of the Advisory Board of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. Patron's previous books for children include the Billy Que trilogy of picture books; Dark Cloud Strong Breeze; and a chapter book, Maybe Yes, Maybe No, Maybe Maybe. All earned starred reviews, and the latter was named an ALA Notable book. The Higher Power of Luck will be translated into twelve foreign languages and has been optioned for a motion picture. Married to a rare book restorer from the Champagne region of France, Susan is working on the final book in the "Lucky" trilogy.

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    Maybe Yes, Maybe No, Maybe Maybe - Susan Patron

    maybe yes, maybe no, maybe maybe

    maybe yes, maybe no, maybe maybe

    SUSAN PATRON

    ILLUSTRATED BY ABIGAIL HALPIN

    ALADDIN

    NEW YORK LONDON TORONTO SYDNEY

    This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events,

    real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters,

    places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination,

    and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead,

    is entirely coincidental.

    ALADDIN

    An imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division

    1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020

    Text copyright © 1993 by Susan Patron

    Illustrations copyright © 2009 by Abigail Halpin

    All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole

    or in part in any form.

    ALADDIN and related logo

    and ALADDIN MIX and related logo are registered trademarks of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

    The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:

    Patron, Susan.

    Maybe yes, maybe no, maybe maybe / Susan Patron; pictures by Dorothy Donahue.

    p cm.

    A Richard Jackson book.

    Summary: When her hardworking mother decides to move, eight-year-old PK

    uses her imagination and storytelling to help her older and younger sisters adjust.

    [1. Moving, Household—Fiction 2. Sisters—Fiction. 3. Mothers and daughters—

    Fiction.] I. Donahue, Dorothy, ill. II. Title

    PZ7.P27565 May 1993

    [Fic]—dc20 92-34067

    ISBN-13: 978-1-4391-5834-0

    ISBN-10: 1-4391-5834-7

    Visit us on the World Wide Web:

    http://www.SimonSays.com

    To my two best friends,

    Patricia Hall Leavengood

    and

    Georgia Lee Hall Chun

    Contents

    1 billions of stories

    2 human jam

    3 megan

    4 bike

    5 rabbit

    6 carrots and pancakes

    7 the riddle of the universe

    8 cherry pits and plastic ants

    9 moving

    10 a secret message

    11 a giant redwood

    12 the big blue chair

    13 a heart like a shredded tire

    14 josh

    15 ants

    16 clean when wrinkled

    17 a good one

    AN INTERVIEW WITH Susan Patron

    1

    billions of stories

    REAL LIFE SEEMED JUST OUT OF PK’s reach. Whenever she thought she finally understood it, everything changed and she had to start figuring it out all over again.

    For instance, during the summer that PK was waiting to turn nine, both her sisters suddenly started growing up and acting different. PK, as far as she could tell, stayed exactly her same old self—and wished everyone else would, too. Instead there were hormones and weird pancakes and the riddle of the universe. Then Mama decided that the family should move. The idea of leaving their small, cozy apartment, with its built-in secret, was almost more than PK could bear.

    Back when life was still more or less normal, Mama went to work every night after dinner. She was a waitress at a fancy restaurant called The Fancy Restaurant. PK and her sisters stayed home and did their jobs. Megan was the oldest; she

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