First US edition
Copyright © 2019 by Meg Grehan
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First published in Ireland as The Deepest Breath, by Little Island Books, 2019
Cover illustration © 2021 by Ahra Kwon
Cover design and hand lettering by Andrea Miller
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Grehan, Meg, author.
Title: Deepest breath / Meg Grehan.
Description: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021. | Originally published in Dublin, Ireland, by Little Island Books in 2019. | Audience: Ages 10 to 12. | Audience: Grades 4–6. | Summary: Struggling with her feelings for a female classmate, an eleven-year-old Irish girl tries to confide in her mother, the person she trusts most in the world.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019037075 (print) | LCCN 2019037076 (ebook) | ISBN 9780358354758 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780358355458 (ebook)
Subjects: CYAC: Novels in verse. | Identity—Fiction. | Self-acceptance—Fiction. | Coming out (Sexual orientation)—Fiction. | Lesbians—Fiction. | Mothers and daughters—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.5.G7 De 2021 (print) | LCC PZ7.5.G7 (ebook) | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019037075
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019037076
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