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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Gray, Claudia, author.
Title: Defy the stars / Claudia Gray.
Description: First edition. | New York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2017. |
Summary: Teenaged soldier Noemi and an enemy robot, Abel, who is programmed to obey her commands, set out on an interstellar quest to save her home planet, Earth colony Genesis.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016028390| ISBN 9780316394031 (hardback) | ISBN 9780316394055 (e-book) | ISBN 9780316394062 (library edition e-book)
Subjects: | CYAC: Soldiers—Fiction. | Robots—Fiction. | Interstellar travel—Fiction. | Orphans—Fiction. | Science fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.G77625 Def 2017 | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016028390
ISBNs: 978-0-316-39403-1 (hardcover), 978-0-316-39405-5 (ebook)
E3-20170214-JV-NF