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Conrad’s Fate

Copyright © 2005 by Diana Wynne Jones

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Jones, Diana Wynne.

Conrad’s fate/ by Diana Wynne Jones.

p. cm.

“Greenwillow Books.”

Summary: When his uncle sends him to work at the mysterious Stallery Mansion, twelve-year-old Conrad Tesdinic must overcome his bad karma and discover the source of the magic that threatens to pull his world into one of the eleven other parallel universes.

ISBN-10: 0-06-074745-5 (pbk.)

ISBN-13: 978-0-06-074745-9 (pbk.)

EPub Edition © AUGUST 2012 ISBN: 9780062244628

[1. Magic—Fiction. 2. Witchcraft—Fiction. 3. Fantasy.] I. Title.

PZ7.J684Co 2005 [Fic]—dc22 2004042462

First Eos edition, 2006