“[Readers will] find the boarding-school experience enviable,
the family situation poignant, and Katie a protagonist they’ll
understand, support, and forgive.”
—
BCCB
, starred review
For Colin
Copyright © 2010 by Jessica Warman
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First published in the United States of America in September 2009
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Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:
Warman, Jessica.
Breathless / Jessica Warman.
p. cm.
Summary: At boarding school, Katie tries to focus on swimming and becoming popular instead of the
painful memories of her institutionalized schizophrenic older brother.
ISBN-13: 978-0-8027-9849-7 • ISBN-10: 0-8027-9849-7 (hardcover)
[1. Schizophrenia—Fiction. 2. Mental illness—Fiction. 3. Brothers and sisters—Fiction. 4. Boarding
schools—Fiction. 5. Schools—Fiction. 6. Peer pressure—Fiction. 7. Swimming—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.W2374Br 2009 [Fic]—dc22 2008042555
ISBN 978-0-8027-2243-0 (e-book)