Falling for You (28 page)

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First Simon Pulse hardcover edition January 2013

Copyright © 2013 by Lisa Schroeder

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Schroeder, Lisa.

Falling for you / Lisa Schroeder. — 1st Simon Pulse hardcover ed.

p. cm.

Summary: Very good friends, her poetry notebooks, and a mysterious “ninja of nice” give seventeen-year-old Rae the strength to face her mother’s neglect, her stepfather’s increasing abuse, and a new boyfriend’s obsessiveness.

ISBN 978-1-4424-4399-0

[1. Family problems—Fiction. 2. Dating (Social customs)—Fiction.

3. High schools—Fiction. 4. Schools—Fiction. 5. Poetry—Fiction.

6. Stepfathers—Fiction. 7. Florists—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.S3818Fal 2013

[Fic]—dc23

2012012993

ISBN 978-1-4424-4401-0 (eBook)