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First Trade Paperback Edition: July 2021
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:
Names: Barnes, Jennifer (Jennifer Lynn), author.
Title: The inheritance games / Jennifer Lynn Barnes.
Description: First edition. | New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2020. | Audience: Ages 12+ | Summary: “When a teen inherits vast wealth and an eccentric estate from the richest man in Texas, she must also live with his surviving family—a family hellbent on discovering just how she earned her inheritance”—Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019054648 | ISBN 9781368052405 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781368053242 (ebook)
Subjects: CYAC: Inheritance and succession—Fiction. | Wealth—Fiction. | Puzzles—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.B26225 In 2020 | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019054648
ISBNs: 978-0-7595-5540-2 (pbk.), 978-1-368-05324-2 (ebook)
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