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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Henstra, Sarah, author.
Title: We contain multitudes / Sarah Henstra.
Description: First edition. | New York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2019. | Summary: As pen pals for a high school English assignment, poetry-loving sophomore Jonathan and popular athlete senior Adam explore their growing relationship through a series of letters.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018022802| ISBN 9780316524650 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780316524643 (ebook)
Subjects: | CYAC: Dating (Social customs)—Fiction. | Love—Fiction. | Gays—Fiction. | Poetry—Fiction. | High schools—Fiction. | Schools— Fiction. | Letters—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.1.H468 We 2019 | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018022802
ISBNs: 978-0-316-52465-0 (hardcover), 978-0-316-52464-3 (ebook)
E3-20190404-JV-NF-ORI