The Space Between Us (34 page)
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Authors: Jessica Martinez
My favorite professionals: Anica Rissi, you are a brilliant editor, and you’re turning me into a spoiled writer. Mandy Hubbard, there’s nobody else I’d rather have in my corner. Thanks for the hand-holding, cheerleading, and wise words. I sometimes feel like I stumbled onto the publishing gold mine with you two. I’m lucky to call you both friends.
Family shout-outs:
Josh, thank you for your ski knowledge. Don’t kill yourself doing backflips off cliffs. Amanda, thanks for listening to me hash out the plot while we ran together. I love you, even if you have always made me look like the mean sister. And of course, Mom and Dad, thanks for loving me more than your other kids. Come on, you know you do. Okay, maybe just Dad.
JESSICA MARTINEZ
lives in sunny Florida but loves writing about her icy Canadian roots. She studied English at Brigham Young University and is now a mother, a runner, and a violinist. When all her siblings get together to play music, she is the bossy one, but it’s not her fault. Someone has to do it. She is also the author of
Virtuosity
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jessicamartinez.com
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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Martinez, Jessica.
The space between us / Jessica Martinez.
p. cm.
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Amelia feels like her life might be getting back on track after a bad breakup when her younger sister’s pregnancy gets them both banished to Canada, where new relationships are forged, giving Amelia a new perspective.
ISBN 978-1-4424-2055-7 (hardcover) [1. Sisters—Fiction. 2. Pregnancy—Fiction. 3. High schools—Fiction. 4. Schools—Fiction.
5. Calgary (Alb.)—Fiction. 6. Canada—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.M36715Sp 2012
[Fic]—dc23
ISBN 978-1-4424-2057-1 (eBook)