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  December 26, 1948

  December 29, 1948

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  Author’s Note

  Acknowledgments

  About the Author

  Copyright

  Copyright © 2015 by Kimberly Willis Holt

  Christy Ottaviano Books

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  Holt, Kimberly Willis.

  Dear Hank Williams / Kimberly Willis Holt. — First edition.

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  “Christy Ottaviano Books.”

  Summary: Assigned to write to a pen pal, eleven-year-old Tate, who lives in Rippling Creek, Louisiana, in 1948, writes to her favorite country singer, sharing her dream of becoming a singer and revealing that her mother is in prison.

  ISBN 978-0-8050-8022-3 (hardcover) • ISBN 978-1-62779-443-5 (e-book)

  [1. Family life—Louisiana—Fiction. 2. Singing—Fiction. 3. Williams, Hank, 1923–1953—Fiction. 4. Louisiana—History—20th century—Fiction. 5. Letters—Fiction.] I. Title.

  PZ7.H74023De 2015 [Fic]—dc23 2014036808

  eISBN 978-1-62779-443-5

  First hardcover edition 2015

  eBook edition April 2015