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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Gray, Claudia, author.
Title: Defy the worlds / Claudia Gray.
Description: First edition. | New York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2018. | Series: Defy the stars ; 2 | Summary: “Sophisticated robot Abel must save teenaged soldier Noemi from capture on a hidden planet, while outwitting armies of deranged service robots and securing medical aid for a plague on Noemi’s home world”— Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017034001| ISBN 9780316394109 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780316394086 (ebook library edition)
Subjects: | CYAC: Soldiers—Fiction. | Robots—Fiction. | Plague—Fiction. |
Immortality—Fiction. | Interstellar travel—Fiction. | Orphans—Fiction. | Science fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.G77625 Dej 2018 | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017034001
ISBNs: 978-0-316-39410-9 (hardcover), 978-0-316-39409-3 (ebook)
E3-20180222-JV-PC