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About the Author

ANDREA PORTES is the bestselling author of the critically lauded adult novels Hick and Bury This. Anatomy of a Misfit is her third novel, and her first for young adult readers. After growing up shuffled between such disparate locales as Nebraska, Rio de Janiero and half a dozen others in between, Andrea now lives in Los Angles. This book is based on events that took place in her ninth-grade year.