Copyright © 2017 by Sarah Moon

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Moon, Sarah, 1982- author.

Title: Sparrow / Sarah Moon.

Description: First edition. | New York, NY : Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2017. | Summary: Fourteen-year-old Sparrow Cooke of Brooklyn has always been the kind of child who prefers reading books to playing with friends (not that she has many of those) and since fifth grade the one person who seemed to understand her was the school librarian—so when Mrs. Wexler was killed in an accident Sparrow’s world came apart, and when she was found on the edge of the school roof everyone assumed that it was a suicide attempt, which Sparrow denies, but cannot find the words to explain.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017017322 | ISBN 9781338032581 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Suicide—Juvenile fiction. | African American girls—Juvenile fiction. | Mothers and daughters—Juvenile fiction. | School librarians—Juvenile fiction. | Grief—Juvenile fiction. | Psychotherapy—Juvenile fiction. | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)—Juvenile fiction. | CYAC: Suicide—Fiction. | African Americans—Fiction. | Mothers and daughters—Fiction. | Librarians—Fiction. | Grief—Fiction. | Psychotherapy—Fiction. | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)—Fiction.

Classification: LCC PZ7.1.M65 Sp 2017 | DDC 813.6 [Fic]—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017017322

First edition, October 2017

Jacket art © 2017 by Cannaday Chapman

Jacket design by Maeve Norton

e-ISBN 978-1-338-03259-8

Quote from “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free,” written by Billy Taylor and Dick Dallas, with kind permission of Duane Music, Inc., administered by 1630 Music Publishing Services, Inc. New York, NY, USA, www.1630music.com

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