Copyright © 2019 by Maureen Stanton
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Stanton, Maureen, author.
Title: Body leaping backward : memoir of a delinquent girlhood / Maureen Stanton.
Description: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018033154 (print) | LCCN 2018052035 (ebook) | ISBN 9781328900364 (ebook) | ISBN 9781328900234 (hardback)
Subjects: LCSH: Stanton, Maureen, author. | Female juvenile delinquents—Massachusetts—Walpole—Biography. | Drug abuse and crime—Massachusetts—Walpole. | Walpole (Mass.)—Social conditions. |
BISAC: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women. | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage. | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology.
Classification: LCC HV6046 (ebook) | LCC HV6046 .S73 2019 (print) | DDC 364.36092 [B]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018033154
Cover design: Michaela Sullivan
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Author photograph © Heather Perry
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