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

  Text copyright © 2003 by Rachel Cohn

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  Also available in a Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers hardcover edition. Designed by Russell Gordon

  The text of this book was set in Aldine 721.

  The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:

  Cohn, Rachel.

  The Steps / Rachel Cohn.—1st ed.

  p. cm.

  Summary: Over Christmas vacation, Annabel goes from her home in Manhattan to visit her father, his new wife, and her half and stepsiblings in Sydney, Australia.

  ISBN-13: 978-0-689-84549-9 (hc.)  ISBN-10: 0-689-84549-9 (hc.)

  [l. Stepfamilies—Fiction. 2. Family life—Fiction. 3. Australia—Fiction.] I. Title

  PZ7.C6665 St 2003

  [Fic]—dc21 2001057566

  ISBN-13: 978-0-689-87414-7 (pbk.)  ISBN-10: 0-689-87414-6 (pbk.)  ISBN-13: 978-1-481-45574-9 (eBook)

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