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Names: Bishop, Jenn. Title: The distance to home / Jenn Bishop. Description: First edition. | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2016] | Summary: Baseball player and superfan Quinnen must struggle to deal with her older sister’s death in a story that unfolds between two summers. Identifiers: LCCN 2015018540 | ISBN 978-1-101-93871-3 (trade) | ISBN 978-1-101-93872-0 (lib. bdg.) | ISBN 978-1-101-93873-7 (ebook) Subjects: | CYAC: Baseball—Fiction. | Sisters—Fiction. | Grief—Fiction. Classification: LCC PZ7.1.B55 Di 2016 | DDC [Fic]—dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/​2015018540

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