Copyright, Jo & Laurie

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Stohl, Margaret, author. | De la Cruz, Melissa, 1971– author.

Title: Jo & Laurie / Margaret Stohl & Melissa de la Cruz.

Other titles: Jo and Laurie | Description: New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, [2020] | Summary: “After the publication of her surprise bestseller Little Women, Jo March struggles to write its sequel, while also deciding her true feelings for her best friend, the boy next door, Theodore ‘Laurie’ Laurence”—Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019059388 | ISBN 9781984812018 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781984812025

Subjects: CYAC: Authors—Fiction. | Family life—Fiction. | Love—Fiction.

Classification: LCC PZ7.S86985 Jo 2020 | DDC [Fic]—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019059388

Ebook ISBN 9781984812025

This is a work of fiction. All incidents and dialogue, and all characters with the exception of some well-known historical figures, are products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Where real-life historical persons appear, the situations, incidents, and dialogues concerning those persons are entirely fictional and are not intended to depict actual events or to change the entirely fictional nature of the work. In all other respects, any resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.

COVER DESIGN BY KRISTIE RADWILOWICZ

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