This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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SIMON PULSE

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First Simon Pulse hardcover edition August 2019

Text copyright © 2019 by Caryn Lix

Front cover art copyright © 2019 by Jacey

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Lix, Caryn, author.

Title: Containment / by Caryn Lix.

Description: First Simon Pulse hardcover edition. | New York : Simon Pulse, 2019. | Summary: Kenzie and her friends learn that more aliens are headed to Earth, and it is up to them to stop the invastion at all costs.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018035878 (print) | LCCN 2018042137 (eBook) | ISBN 9781534405387 (eBook) | ISBN 9781534405363 (hc)

Subjects: | CYAC: Adventure and adventurers—Fiction. | Extraterrestrial beings—Fiction. | Supervillains—Fiction. | Science fiction.

Classification: LCC PZ7.1.L5853 (eBook) | LCC PZ7.1.L5853 Con 2019 (print) | DDC [Fic]—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018035878