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Authors: Sharon Flake
Thanks and appreciation go to the following:
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My editor, Andrea Davis Pinkney. You are the best. I could not have done it without you.
Coach Chris Edmonds (Pittsburgh Perry High School). Thanks for making yourself and your team available. Your insight and knowledge about wrestling were invaluable. Your kindness and warmth meant a great deal.
Yolanda Harris and Kathy Payne. Your wisdom and friendship over the years has comforted and strengthened me. And made me chuckle, too. Thanks for taking this journey with me.
Caribou Coffee (Freeport Road). I wrestled with this novel for many years. How helpful it was during the
final 365 to find myself at your shop, windows pouring forth sunlight as readily as a warm cup of coffee from a pot. Friendly faces. A quiet space where silence does not enter, yet one's muse surely can and does. I had several breakthroughs there, proving that the right place and space does matter.
Sharon G. Flake exploded onto the literary scene with her novel
The Skin I'm In
, for which she was named a
Publishers Weekly
Flying Start. Since then she has become a multiple Coretta Scott King Book Award Author Honor winner and has been hailed as the voice of middle-grade youth and a Rising Star by the
Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
. Many of Sharon's novels have received ALA Notable and Best Books for Young Adults citations from the American Library Association. Her writing has been applauded for its on-point narrative that explores issues affecting teens from all walks of life. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Please visit Sharon at her website,
www.sharongflake.com
, and on Facebook and Twitter.
Copyright © 2012 by Sharon G. Flake
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Flake, Sharon.
Pinned / Sharon G. Flake. â 1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: Adonis is smart, intellectually gifted and born without legs;
Autumn is strong, a great wrestler, and barely able to read in ninth grade â but Autumn is attracted to Adonis and determined to make him a part of her life whatever he or her best friend thinks.
ISBN 978-0-545-05718-9 â ISBN 978-0-545-05733-2
1. People with disabilities â Juvenile fiction. 2. Learning disabled â Juvenile fiction. 3. African Americans â Juvenile fiction. 4. High schools â Juvenile fiction. 5. Best friends â Juvenile fiction. 6. Friendship â Juvenile fiction. [1. People with disabilities â Fiction. 2. Learning disabilities â Fiction. 3. African Americans â Fiction. 4. High schools â Fiction. 5. Schools â Fiction. 6. Best friends â Fiction.
7. Friendship â Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.F59816Pin 2012 813.6 â dc23
2012009239
First edition, October 2012
Cover design by Elizabeth B. Parisi & Nina Goffi
Cover photography © 2012 by Michael Frost
e-ISBN: 978-0-545-46984-5
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