title: Absolutely Lucy #5: Lucy's Tricks and Treats
author:  Ilene Cooper 
description: For over 20 years, ILENE COOPER has been writing both fiction and nonfiction books for children, including <i>The Golden Rule, Jack: The Early Years of J.F.K.,</i> and her Stepping Stones <i>Absolutely Lucy, Lucy on the Loose, Look at Lucy! </i>and <i>Lucy on the Ball.</i> She is also the children's books editor at ALA Booklist magazine.<br /><br />DAVID MERRELL also did the interior illustrations for <i>Look at Lucy!</i> and <i>Lucy on the Ball.</i>
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  LISA SCOTTOLINE
  
  
  
  
  
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  To my readers, with my deepest thanks
  
  
  
  
  
  For your dedication, I offer my own
  
  
  
  
  
  May you always be courageous.
  
  
  —BOB DYLAN, “Forever Young”
  
  
  
  
  
  Lucy Ricardo and Ethel Mertz (singing): When other friendships have been
  forgot, ours will still be hot.
  
  
  —I Love Lucy,  
  “Lucy and Ethel Buy the Same Dress,”  
  Episode No. 69, October 19, 1953,  
  singing Cole Porter’s “Friendship”
  
  
  
  
  
  Table of Contents
  
  
  
  
  
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  [THE NOVELS](Courting_Trouble_split_041.html#filepos639704)
  
  
  
  
  
  [EPIGRAPH](Courting_Trouble_split_003.html#filepos1580)
  
  
  
  
  
  [1](Courting_Trouble_split_005.html#filepos15416) Anne Murphy barreled through
  the bustling lobb