title: Carly's Wish: A Concepts with Carly Book
author: Summer K. Clark
description: Summer K. Clark was born and resides in Ohio with her husband and their eight children. She became interested in writing when she was in grade school and has been writing ever since. She is a CDA certified family childcare provider and is very passionate about reading to and educating young minds.
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  Carly Phillips
  
  Cross My Heart
  
  To the Plotmonkeys, Janelle, Julie and Les,
  
  you aren’t just colleagues, you are my friends,
  
  and my sisters.
  
  To Robert Gottlieb, thank you for taking
  
  this journey with me and for believing in me
  
  every step of the way.
  
  An extra-special thank-you to my editor,
  
  Brenda Chin, for pushing me to the limit on
  
  this one. Don’t ever let up!
  
  As always, this book is dedicated to my family.
  
  To my husband, Phil, my daughters, Jackie and Jen,
  
  and my doggies, Buddy and Dylan; and to
  
  Mom and Dad. You make every day worthwhile.
  
  I love you all.
  
  ACK OWLEDGME TS
  
  Writing this story was a stretch for me, a huge leap of faith in myself and my
  writing. Thanks to those who
  
  helped me along the way: the Plotmonkeys: Janelle Denison, Julie Leto and
  Leslie Kelly, the best writers and
  
  friends a girl could have. Susan Kearney, whose plotting mind works in ways
  that astound me, than