Art of Holding On and Letting Go

Winner of the 2016 Helen Sheehan YA Book Prize

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either a product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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ISBN: 9780996864916

Library of Congress Control Number: 2016942722

Printed in the United States of America

Book Design by Amanda Schwarz,

Fisheye Graphic Services, Chicago

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