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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Text copyright © 2014 by George Hagen

Jacket art and interior illustrations copyright © 2014 by Scott Bakal

Frontispiece illustration copyright © 2014 by Jake Parker

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hagen, George.

Gabriel Finley and the raven’s riddle / George Hagen. — First edition.

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Summary: Eleven-year-old Gabriel, with the help of the young raven Paladin, with whom he has a magical bond, travels to the foreboding land of Aviopolis, where he must face challenges and unanswerable riddles to rescue his long-missing father.

ISBN 978-0-385-37103-2 (hc) — ISBN 978-0-385-37104-9 (glb) —

ISBN 978-0-385-37105-6 (ebook)

[1. Adventure and adventurers—Fiction. 2. Voyages and travels—Fiction. 3. Magic—Fiction. 4. Missing persons—Fiction. 5.

PZ7. H12346Gab 2014

[Fic]—dc23

2013032533

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This raven tale is written for a soul whom I adore. To spell her name correctly, please first solve these riddles four:

Let’s go back to the Romans, who,

When writing 50, always drew

This letter for a numeral, too.

Oh, the shame and dreadful woe

Expressed by poets long ago

(This very rhyme’s a clue, y’know).

Letter three can best be found

Upon the banknote of a pound

Before the number, safe and sound.

At last, the fourth, a note played clear

For all in an orchestra to hear

Before the maestro may appear.

—G. H.