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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Maldonado, Torrey, author.

Title: What lane? / Torrey Maldonado.

Description: New York: Nancy Paulsen Books, [2020] | Summary: Biracial sixth-grader Stephen questions the limitations society puts on him after he notices the way strangers treat him when he hangs out with his white friends and learns about the Black Lives Matter movement.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019043556 | ISBN 9780525518433 (hardback) ISBN 9780525518440 (ebook)

Subjects: CYAC: Racism—Fiction. | Friendship—Fiction. Black lives matter movement—Fiction. | Racially mixed people—Fiction. African Americans—Fiction. | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)—Fiction.

Classification: LCC PZ7.M2927 Wh 2020 | DDC [Fic]—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019043556

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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Jacket design by SAMIRA IRAVANI

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