Pop Princess (29 page)

ALSO BY RACHEL COHN

Gingerbread

The Steps

SIMON & SCHUSTER BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS

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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 products of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2004 by Rachel Cohn

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Cohn, Rachel.

Pop princess / Rachel Cohn.

p. cm.

Summary: Yearning to escape the small Massachusetts town where her family retreated after her sister's death, Wonder Blake gets her chance when her sister's manager offers Wonder a record contract on her sixteenth birthday.

ISBN 0-689-85205-3

eISBN 978-1-4814-5573-2

[1. Singers—Fiction. 2. Music trade—Fiction. 3. Popular music—Fiction. 4. Family problems—Fiction. 5. Interpersonal relations—Fiction. 6. Massachusetts—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.C6665 Po 2004

[Fic]—dc21  2003000171