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

Text copyright © 2019 by Erin Stewart LLC

Cover art copyright © 2019 by Jan Heur

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

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Grateful acknowledgment is made to Atticus for permission to reprint his poem “She conquered her demons and wore her scars like wings.”

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Stewart, Erin, author.

Title: Scars like wings / Erin Stewart.

Description: First edition. | New York : Delacorte Press, [2019] | Summary: One year after the fire that claimed her parents’ and cousin’s lives and left her severely disfigured, sixteen-year-old Ava faces the return to high school.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018039863 (print) | LCCN 2018048573 (ebook) | ISBN 978-1-9848-4884-0 (ebook) | ISBN 978-1-9848-4882-6 (hc : alk. paper) | ISBN 978-1-9848-4883-3 (glb : alk. paper) | ISBN 978-0-593-12381-2 (exp.)

Subjects: | CYAC: Disfigured persons—Fiction. | High schools—Fiction. | Schools—Fiction. | Self-confidence—Fiction. | Orphans—Fiction.

Classification: LCC PZ7.1.S7457 (ebook) | LCC PZ7.1.S7457 Sc 2019 (print) | DDC [Fic]—dc23

Ebook ISBN 9781984848840

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