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SIMON PULSE
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First Simon Pulse hardcover edition August 2018
Compilation copyright © 2018 by Amy Reed
“My Immigrant American Dream” copyright © 2018 by Sandhya Menon; “Her Hair Was Not of Gold” copyright © 2018 by Anna-Marie McLemore; “Finding My Feminism” copyright © 2018 by Amy Reed; “Unexpected Pursuits: Embracing My Indigeneity & Creativity” copyright © 2018 by Christine Day; “Chilled Monkey Brains” copyright © 2018 by Sona Charaipotra; “Roar” copyright © 2018 by Jaye Robin Brown; “Easter Offering” copyright © 2018 by Brandy Colbert; “Trumps and Trunchbulls” copyright © 2018 by Alexandra Duncan; “Tiny Battles” copyright © 2018 by Maurene Goo; “These Words Are Mine” copyright © 2018 by Stephanie Kuehnert; “Fat and Loud” copyright © 2018 by Julie Murphy; “Myth Making: In the Wake of Hardship” copyright © 2018 by Somaiya Daud; “Changing Constellations” copyright © 2018 by Nina LaCour; “The One Who Defines Me” copyright © 2018 by Aisha Saeed; “In Our Genes” copyright © 2018 by Hannah Moskowitz; “An Accidental Activist” copyright © 2018 by Ellen Hopkins; “Dreams Deferred and Other Explosions” copyright © 2018 by Ilene (I.W.) Gregorio; “Not Like the Other Girls” copyright © 2018 by Martha Brockenbrough; “Is Something Bothering You?” copyright © 2018 by Jenny Torres Sanchez; “What I’ve Learned About Silence” copyright © 2018 by Amber Smith; “Black Girl, Becoming” copyright © 2018 by Tracy Deonn Walker
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Reed, Amy Lynn editor.
Title: Our stories, our voices : 21 YA authors get real about injustice, empowerment, and growing up female in America / edited by Amy Reed.
Description: First Simon Pulse hardcover edition. | New York : Simon Pulse, 2018.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017029042 (print) | LCCN 2017042250 (eBook) | ISBN 9781534409019 (eBook) | ISBN 9781534408999 (hardcover)
Subjects: LCSH: Young women—United States—Social conditions—21st century. | Equality—United States. | Feminism—United States.
Classification: LCC HQ799.7 (eBook) | LCC HQ799.7 .O925 2018 (print) | DDC 305.420973/0905—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017029042