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First published in the United States of America in February 2019 by Bloomsbury YA

Text copyright © 2019 by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan

Illustrations copyright © 2019 by Kaylani Juanita

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Watson, Renée, author. | Hagan, Ellen, author.

Title: Watch us rise / by Renee Watson and Ellen Hagan.

Description: New York : Bloomsbury, 2019.

Summary: Frustrated by the way women are treated—even at their progressive New York City high school—two best friends start a Women’s Rights Club, post their essays and poems online, and watch it go viral, attracting positive support as well as trolls.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018045153 (print) • LCCN 2018051272 (e-book)

ISBN 978-1-5476-0008-3 (hardback) • ISBN 978-1-5476-0009-0 (e-book)

Subjects: | CYAC: Women’s rights—Fiction. | Clubs—Fiction. | Best friends—Fiction. | Friendship—Fiction. | High schools—Fiction. | Schools—Fiction. | New York (N.Y.)—Fiction.

Classification: LCC PZ7.W32868 Wat 2019 (print) | LCC PZ7.W32868 (e-book) | DDC [Fic]—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018045153

Book design by Jeanette Levy

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