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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Hutchinson, Shaun David, author.

Title: Before we disappear / Shaun David Hutchinson.

Description: First edition. | New York, NY : HarperTeen, [2021] | Audience: Ages 14 up. | Audience: Grades 10–12. | Summary: Fifteen-year-old Jack and sixteen-year-old Wilhelm, assistants to—and captives of—rival magicians, fall in love against the backdrop of Seattle’s 1909 world’s fair, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020055670 | ISBN 978-0-06-302522-6 (hardcover)

Subjects: CYAC: Magicians—Fiction. | Magic—Fiction. | Love—Fiction. | Gays—Fiction. | Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909 : Seattle, Wash.)—Fiction. | Seattle (Wash.)—History—20th century—Fiction.

Classification: LCC PZ7.H96183 Bef 2021 | DDC [Fic]—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020055670


Digital Edition SEPTEMBER 2021 ISBN: 978-0-06-302525-7

Print ISBN: 978-0-06-302522-6

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FIRST EDITION