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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

 

Names: Ramos, NoNieqa, author.

Title: The truth is / by NoNieqa Ramos.

Description: Minneapolis, MN : Carolrhoda Lab, [2019] | Summary: Closed off and grieving her best friend, fifteen-year-old overachiever Verdad faces prejudices at school and from her traditional mother, her father’s distance since his remarriage, and her attraction to a transgender classmate.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018042053 (print) | LCCN 2018049450 (ebook) | ISBN 9781541561038 (eb pdf) | ISBN 9781541528772 (th : alk. paper)

Subjects: | CYAC: Interpersonal relations—Fiction. | Grief—Fiction. | Transgender people—Fiction. | Racially mixed people—Fiction. | Family life—Fiction.

Classification: LCC PZ7.1.R3656 (ebook) | LCC PZ7.1.R3656 Tru 2020 (print) | DDC [Fic]—dc23

 

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Manufactured in the United States of America

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