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  ALADDIN QUIX

  SIMON & SCHUSTER, NEW YORK

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  Welcome to ALADDIN QUIX!

  If you are looking for fast, fun-to-read stories with colorful characters, lots of kid-friendly humor, easy-to-follow action, entertaining story lines, and lively illustrations, then ALADDIN QUIX is for you!

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  If you’re also looking for stories with tables of contents; word lists; about-the-book questions; 64, 80, or 96 pages; short chapters; short paragraphs; and large fonts, then ALADDIN QUIX is definitely for you!

  ALADDIN QUIX: The next step between ready to reads and longer, more challenging chapter books, for readers five to eight years old.

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  A Miss Mallard Mystery

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  Gondola to Danger

  This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  ALADDIN QUIX

  Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division

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  This Aladdin QUIX paperback edition January 2019

  Copyright © 1983 by Robert Quackenbush

  Also available in an Aladdin QUIX hardcover edition.

  All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.

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  Designed by Nina Simoneaux

  The illustrations for this book were rendered in pen and ink and wash.

  Library of Congress Control Number 2018959531

  ISBN 978-1-5344-1406-8 (hc)

  ISBN 978-1-5344-1405-1 (pbk)

  ISBN 978-1-5344-1407-5 (eBook)