PUBLISHER’S NOTE: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Williams, Ismée, author.

Title: This train is being held/Ismée Williams.

Description: New York: Amulet Books, 2020. | Summary: Told in two voices, ballet dancer and private school student Isabelle Warren and poet and baseball star Alex Rosario grow closer after meeting on a subway, bonding over their parents’ expectations and their own dreams. Identifiers: LCCN 2019033767 (print) | LCCN 2019033768 (ebook) | ISBN 9781419734939 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781683354871 (ebook) Subjects: CYAC: Dating (Social customs)—Fiction. | Social classes—Fiction. | Hispanic Americans—Fiction. | Family life—New York (State)—New York—Fiction. | New York (N.Y.)—Fiction.

Classification: LCC PZ7.1.W546 Thi 2020 (print) | LCC PZ7.1.W546 (ebook) | DDC [Fic]—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019033767

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019033768

Text copyright © 2020 Ismée Williams

Book design by Siobhán Gallagher

This page: Excerpt from “Love Sonnet XI” by Pablo Neruda, from One Hundred Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014).

This page: “Hide-and-Seek 1933” by Galway Kinnell can be found in Strong Is Your Hold: Poems by Galway Kinnell (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006).

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