Jailbait (24 page)

Lesléa Newman
is the award-winning author of many books for young readers and adults. Known for her boundary-breaking book
Heather Has Two Mommies
, she continues to write stories for voices previously unheard. The recipient of creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, Lesléa Newman lives and writes in Northampton, Massachusetts. Visit her Web site at
www.lesleakids.com
.

Published by
Delacorte Press
an imprint of
Random House Children's Books
a division of Random House, Inc.
New York

Text copyright © 2005 by Lesléa Newman

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

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Newman, Lesléa.
Jailbait / Lesléa Newman.

p.    cm.

Summary: In 1971, unpopular and lonely tenth-grader Andi—teased at her Long Island high school for her large breasts and ignored at home by her distant parents—builds a fantasy romantic life around her clandestine, sexual relationship with a man in his thirties.

eISBN: 978-0-307-53305-0

[1. Sex—Fiction. 2. Self-esteem—Fiction. 3. Emotional problems—Fiction.
4. Parent, and child—Fiction. 5. High schools—Fiction. 6. Long Island (N.Y.)—Fiction. 7. Schools—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.L47988Jai 2005

[Fie]—dc22

2004009559

June 2005

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