Afterparty (36 page)
Authors: Ann Redisch Stampler
Tags: #Juvenile Fiction, #Social Themes, #Emotions & Feelings, #Adolescence, #Love & Romance, #Social Issues
Finally, Evan, rescue dog extraordinaire, thank you for reforming and not actually eating any significant pieces of paper, note cards, or paper clips involved in the creation of this book.
ANN REDISCH STAMPLER
is also the author of
Where It Began
as well as several picture books, including
The Rooster Prince of Breslov
. Her books have been an Aesop Accolade winner, Sydney Taylor Honor and Notable books, a National Jewish Book Awards finalist and winner, and Bank Street Best Books of the Year. Ann lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband, Rick.
Author photograph by Sonya Sones
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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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First Simon Pulse hardcover edition January 2014
Text copyright © 2014 by Ann Redisch Stampler
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Stampler, Ann Redisch.
Afterparty / Ann Redisch Stampler. — First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
p. cm.
Summary: Tired of always being the good girl, Emma forms a friendship with fun and alluring Siobhan. But Siobhan’s dangerous lifestyle becomes more than Emma can handle.
ISBN 978-1-4424-2324-4
[1. Conduct of life—Fiction. 2. Friendship—Fiction. 3. Peer pressure—Fiction.
4. High schools—Fiction. 5. Schools—Fiction. 6. Single-parent families—Fiction.
7. Los Angeles (Calif.)—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.S78614Aft 2014 [Fic]—dc23 2013029008
ISBN 978-1-4424-2326-8 (eBook)