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First published in 2010 by Viking, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

 

 

Copyright © Natasha Friend, 2010
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Friend, Natasha, date-
For keeps / by Natasha Friend.
p. cm.
Summary: Just as sixteen-year-old Josie and her mother finally begin trusting men enough
to start dating seriously, the father Josie never knew comes back to town and shakes up
what was already becoming a difficult mother-daughter relationship.

eISBN : 978-1-101-18673-2

[1. Mothers and daughters—Fiction. 2. Dating (Social customs)—Fiction. 3. Single-parent
families—Fiction. 4. Fathers and daughters—Fiction. 5. High schools—Fiction.
6. Schools—Fiction. 7. Family life—Massachusetts—Fiction. 8.
Massachusetts—Fiction.]
I. Title.
PZ7.F91535For 2010
[Fic]—dc22
2009022472

 

 

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