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  “By the same token, I think that every reader who reads a book is translating it into the language of his mind. The main difference between translating a book into another language and translating it into a movie is that a book can take you into someone else’s head, and a movie can’t. Only through reading the written word, in whatever language, can you learn what Winston Elliot Carmichael, the hero of this story, is thinking.

  “I don’t know if My Father’s Daughter will catch your eye, but I hope it will engage your mind and your heart. And something else: I hope your feelings will translate into love.”

  E. L. Konigsburg received the Newbery Medal and a Newbery Honor for her first two books, From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley and Me, Elizabeth. She won her second Newbery Medal for The View from Saturday. Her other acclaimed books include Silent to the Bone, The Second Mrs. Gioconda, and The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place. She lives in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.

  Also by E. L. Konigsburg

  Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth,

  William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth

  From the Mixed-up Files

  of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

  Altogether, One at a Time

  A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver

  The Dragon in the Ghetto Caper

  The Second Mrs. Gioconda

  My Father’s Daughter

  Throwing Shadows

  About the B’nai Bagels

  (George)

  Journey to an 800 Number

  Up from Jericho Tel

  Samuel Todd’s Book of Great Colors

  Samuel Todd’s Book of Great Inventions

  Amy Elizabeth Explores Bloomingdale’s

  T-Backs, T-Shirts, COAT, and Suit

  TalkTalk: A Children’s Book Author

  Speaks to Grown-ups

  The View from Saturday

  Silent to the Bone

  The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place

  The Mysterious Edge

  of the Heroic World

  ATHENEUM BOOK FOR YOUNG READERS

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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.

  Copyright © 1976 by E. L. Konigsburg

  Copyright renewed © 2004 by E. L. Konigsburg

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  in whole or in part in any form.

  Originally published as Father’s Arcane Daughter in 1976

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  Book design by Karin Paprocki

  The text for this book is set in Bembo.

  Manufactured in the United States of America

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  ISBN 978-1-4169-5500-9 (pbk)

  ISBN-13: 978-1-4169-5500-9 (eBook)