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 persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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First Simon Pulse hardcover edition August 2017
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Glines, Abbi, author.
Title: After the game : a Field party novel / by Abbi Glines.
Description: First Simon Pulse hardcover edition. |
New York : Simon Pulse, 2017. |
Summary: After being away for two years, Riley Young returns to Lawton, Alabama, with her fifteen-month-old daughter to help take care of her grandmother who has Alzheimers, even though it means she has to face the lies that forced her to leave town in the first place and a blossoming friendship with the high school football star Brady Higgens, who is dealing with his own family problems.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016042465 | ISBN 9781481438933 (hc)
Subjects: | CYAC: Teenage mothers—Fiction. |
Family problems—Fiction. | Football—Fiction. | Love—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.G4888 Af 2017 |
DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016042465
ISBN 9781481438940 (eBook)