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The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:
Names: Gregorio, I. W., 1976– author.
Title: This is my brain in love / by I. W. Gregorio.
Description: First edition. | New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2020. | Audience: Ages 12+. | Summary: Rising high school juniors Jocelyn Wu and Will Domenici fall in love while trying to save the Wu family restaurant, A-Plus Chinese Garden.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019033954 | ISBN 9780316423823 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780316423847 (ebook) | ISBN 9780316423854 (library edition ebook)
Subjects: CYAC: Restaurants—Fiction. | Cooking, Chinese—Fiction. | Anxiety disorders—Fiction. | Chinese Americans—Fiction. | African Americans—Fiction. | Love—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.1.G7415 Thi 2020 | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019033954
ISBNs: 978-0-316-42383-0 (pbk.), 978-0-316-42384-7 (ebook)
E3-20210309-JV-PC-REV