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First published in 2010 by

DAVID R. GODINE · Publisher

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Story copyright © 2010 by Peter Ackerman

Illustrations copyright © 2010 by Max Dalton

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Ackerman, Peter.

The lonely phonebooth / by Peter Ackerman ; illustrations by Max Dalton.

– 1st ed.

p. cm.

Summary: When cellular telephones arrive on the scene, a once-popular

Manhattan phonebooth becomes shabby and lonely until a power outage

reminds everyone of how useful it can be.

HARDCOVER ISBN 978-1-56792-414-5

EBOOK ISBN 978-1-56792-505-0

[1. Telephone booths–Fiction. 2. Loneliness–Fiction. 3. Cell phones–Fiction.

4. New York (N.Y.)–Fiction.] I. Dalton, Max, ill. II. Title.

PZ7.A18255LON 2010

[E]–DC22

2010009372

For Clea, Stanley, and Alvin

With special thanks to Peter Mendelsund