Холли Блэк (Holly Black)WHITE CAT
ALSO BY
HOLLY BLACK
Tithe
Valiant
Ironside
The Spiderwick Chronicles
The Field Guide
The Seeing Stone
Lucinda’s Secret
The Ironwood Tree
The Wrath of Mulgarath
Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles
The Nixie’s Song
A Giant Problem
The Wyrm King
The Curse Workers
BOOK ONE
WHITE CAT
HOLLY BLACK
MARGARET K. MCELDERRY BOOKS
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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 products
of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events
or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2010 by Holly Black
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The text for this book is set in Cambria.
Manufactured in the United States of America
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Black, Holly.
White cat / Holly Black.—st ed.
p. cm.—(The curse workers)
Summary: When Cassel Sharpe discovers that his
older brothers have used him to carry out their criminal
schemes and then stolen his memories, he figures out
a way to turn their evil machinations against them.
ISBN 978-1-4169-6396-7 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-4424-0597-4 (eBook)
[1. Science fiction. 2. Swindlers and swindling—Fiction.
3. Memory—Fiction. 4. Criminals—Fiction.
5. Brothers—Fiction.] I. Title.