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  And he still gets on my last nerve.

  But sometimes?

  I feel like we’re almost twins.

  About the Author and Illustrator

  Linda Davick is the illustrator of several celebrated picture books, including the New York Times bestseller 10 Trick-or-Treaters by Janet Schulman, We Love You, Rosie! by Cynthia Rylant, and her own Say Hello! and I Love You, Nose! I Love You, Toes! Linda lives in San Francisco in a one-hundred-year-old house by the sea. This is her first novel.

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  This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  Copyright © 2018 by Linda Davick

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  Book design by Lauren Rille

  The illustrations for this book were rendered digitally.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Names: Davick, Linda, author.

  Title: It’s not easy being Mimi / Linda Davick.

  Other titles: It is not easy being Mimi

  Description: First edition. | New York : Beach Lane Books, [2017] | Summary: “Mimi and her cat Marvin must adjust when an unexpected new neighbor moves into the Periwinkle Tower”—Provided by publisher.

  Identifiers: LCCN 2017001400 | ISBN 9781442458895 (paper-over-board) | ISBN 9781442458918 (eBook)

  Subjects: | CYAC: Friendship—Fiction. | Neighbors—Fiction. |

  Schools—Fiction. | Apartment houses—Fiction. | Cats—Fiction. |

  Christmas—Fiction. | Pageants—Fiction.

  Classification: LCC PZ7.D2815 It 2017 | DDC [Fic]—dc23

  LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017001400