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First published in the United States of America in September 2020 by Bloomsbury YA

Text copyright © 2020 by Lilliam Rivera

Illustrations copyright © 2020 by Krystal Quiles

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Rivera, Lilliam, author.

Title: Never look back / by Lilliam Rivera.

Description: New York : Bloomsbury Children’s Books, 2020.

Summary: A modern retelling of the myth Orpheus and Eurydice, in which Eury leaves Puerto Rico for the Bronx, haunted by losing all to Hurricane Maria and by evil spirit Ato, and meets a bachata-singing charmer, Pheus.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020008715 (print) | LCCN 2020008716 (e-book)

ISBN 978-1-5476-0373-2 (hardcover) • ISBN 978-1-5476-0374-9 (e-book)

Subjects: CYAC: Love—Fiction. | Spirits—Fiction. | Family life—New York (State)—New York—Fiction. | Puerto Ricans—Fiction. | Dominican Americans—Fiction. | New York (N.Y.)—Fiction.

Classification: LCC PZ7.1.R5765 Nev 2020 (print) | LCC PZ7.1.R5765 (e-book) | DDC [Fic]—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020008715

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