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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Lane, Kathleen, 1967– author. Title: Pity party : stories / by Kathleen Lane. Description: First edition. | New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021. | Audience: Ages 8-12. | Summary: “A grab bag of deliciously dark short fiction set in middle school that explores anxieties and twists them into funny, resonant, and reassuring psychological thrills”—Provided by publisher. Identifiers: LCCN 2020005648 | ISBN 9780316417365 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780316417358 (ebook) | ISBN 9780316417389 (ebook other) Subjects: LCSH: Middle school students—Juvenile fiction. | Children’s stories. | CYAC: Middle schools—Fiction. | Schools—Fiction. | Short stories. Classification: LCC PZ7.L2501 Pit 2021 | DDC [Fic]—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020005648
ISBNs: 978-0-316-41736-5 (hardcover), 978-0-316-41735-8 (ebook)
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