My hope is that the mistakes of our past will act as a reminder to our great country that no child, for whatever reason, should ever see a red sky at night.
About the Author
BEN MIKAELSEN has won the International Reading Association Award and the Western Writers of America Spur Award. His novels have won critical acclaim, as well as several state reader’s choice awards. These novels include RESCUE JOSH McGUIRE, SPARROW HAWK RED, STRANDED, COUNTDOWN, PETEY, and TOUCHING SPIRIT BEAR. Ben’s articles and photos appear in numerous magazines around the world. He lives in a log cabin near Bozeman, Montana, with a 700-pound black bear he has adopted and raised.
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BOOKS BY BEN MIKAELSEN
RESCUE JOSH McGUIRE
SPARROW HAWK RED
STRANDED
COUNTDOWN
PETEY
TOUCHING SPIRIT BEAR
Credits
Cover art © 2003 by Cliff Nielsen
Cover design by Andrea Vandergrift
Cover © 2003 by HarperCollins Publishers Inc.
Copyright
RED MIDNIGHT. Copyright © 2002 by Ben Mikaelsen. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Mikaelsen, Ben.
Red midnight / Ben Mikaelsen.
p. cm.
Summary: After soldiers kill his family, twelve-year-old Santiago and his four-year-old sister flee Guatemala in a kayak and try to reach the United States.
ISBN 0-380-97745-1 — ISBN 0-06-001228-5 (lib. bdg.)
ISBN 0-380-80561-8 (pbk.)
[1. Guatemala—Fiction. 2. Kayaks and kayaking—Fiction. 3. Survival—Fiction. 4. Emigration and immigration—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.M5926 Rc 2002 2001039834
[Fic]—dc21 CIP
AC
EPub Edition © February 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-200965-4
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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