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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Brennan, Sarah Rees, author. | Pacat, C. S. Fence. | Johanna the Mad, illustrator.
Title: Disarmed: an original novel / by Sarah Rees Brennan; based on the Fence comics created by C.S. Pacat and Johanna the Mad.
Description: First edition. | New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2021. | Series: Fence; [2] | Audience: Ages 14 & up. | Summary: “The boys of Kings Row are off to a training camp in France! The team will have to face superior fencers, ex-boyfriends, expulsion, and even Nicholas’s golden boy and secret half-brother, the infamous Jesse Coste”—Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020048438 | ISBN 9780316429870 (paperback) | ISBN 9780316429894 (ebook) | ISBN 9780316429863 (ebook other)
Subjects: CYAC: Interpersonal relations—Fiction. | Fencing—Fiction. | Brothers—Fiction. | Boarding schools—Fiction. | Schools—Fiction. | Gays—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.B751645 Dis 2021 | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020048438
ISBNs: 978-0-316-42987-0 (pbk.), 978-0-316-42989-4 (ebook)
E3-20210403-JV-NF-ORI