To Cole and Rachel Shearer – P. B.
For my baby sister, Linda, with love – B. C.
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Text copyright © 2000 by P.B. Creations Inc.
Illustrations © copyright 2000 Brenda Clark Illustrator Inc.
Interior illustrations prepared with the assistance of Shelley Southern.
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Canadian Cataloguing Publication Data
Bourgeois, Paulette
Franklin’s baby sister
eISBN 978-1-4532-1868-6
ISBN 1-55074-794-0 (bound) ISBN 1-55074-858-0
I. Clark, Brenda II. Title.
PS8553.O85477F724 2000jC813’.54 C00-930336-7
PZ7.B68Fr 2000
Kids Can Press is a Nelvana company
Written by Paulette Bourgeois
Illustrated by Brenda Clark
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