COLD SPRINGS
A Bantam Book / May 2003

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Copyright © 2003 by Rick Riordan

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Riordan, Rick.
Cold Springs / Rick Riordan.
p.                  cm.
1. Problem youth—Fiction.                  2. Teenage girls—Fiction.
3. Wilderness survival—Fiction.                  4. Fugitives from justice—Fiction.                  5. Texas—Fiction.                  I. Title.

PS3568.I5866C65 2003
813'.54—dc21
2003040365

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