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KENDRA NORMAN-BELLAMY

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Editor: Suzette Dinwiddie
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Cover Design and Images: Jaxon Visual Design and Illustration

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Norman-Bellamy, Kendra.
   Fifteen years / Kendra Norman-Bellamy.
      p. cm.
   ISBN 978-0-8024-6885-7
   1. African Americans—Fiction. 2. Foster children—Fiction.
   3. Atlanta (Ga.)—Fiction. 4. Domestic fiction. I. Title.

PS3614.O765F54 2010
813’.6—dc22

2009040448

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