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  I walked into the shadows to write parts of this novel, and Jake Lilly held the light so I could find my way back. Thanks for that, friend.

  Free Verse wouldn’t exist if not for my parents, Mark and Kate, and my sisters, Jennifer and Heather. I’m also convinced that Maria Lynette Goodyear and Emmett Isaac Lynch are my good-luck charms.

  sarah dooley has lived in an assortment of small West Virginia towns, each of which she grew to love. Winner of the 2012 PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship, she has written two previous novels for middle-grade readers. Sarah is a former special-education teacher who now provides treatment to children with autism. She lives in Huntington, West Virginia, where she inadvertently collects cats. She’s a 2006 graduate of Marshall University.

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