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For Sandy Perlman, forever a girl like me —A.J.

Thank you to the girls who modeled for this book—Giselle Bosch, Amina Bradford, Ellie Chen, Evelyn Craig, Sydney Crews, Zo Duncan,
C’anna Moore, Saydee Reid, Lucia Reinhardt, Adesola Valery, Kimaya Wilkins, and Ariana Zephyrin. Thank you to Evetta Petty of
Harlem’s Heaven Hats. Thank you to Asa Antoine, Sam Henriques, and Becky Lax for your assistance with my photo shoots
—N.C.

Text copyright © 2004 by Angela Johnson
Illustrations copyright © 2020 by Nina Crews

All rights reserved. International copyright secured. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or
transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise—without the prior written
permission of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc., except for the inclusion of brief quotations in an acknowledged review.

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Minneapolis, MN 55401 USA

For reading levels and more information, look up this title at www.lernerbooks.com.
Designed by Danielle Carnito and Nina Crews.
Main body text set in Helvetica Rounded LT Std. Typeface provided by Adobe Systems.
The illustrations in this book are created from 35mm digital photographs and digital
vector graphics collaged and manipulated in Adobe Photoshop.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Johnson, Angela, 1961– author. | Crews, Nina, illustrator.
Title: A girl like me / Angela Johnson ; illustrations by Nina Crews.
Description: Minneapolis : Millbrook Press, 2020.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019001163 (print) | LCCN 2019003422 (ebook) |
ISBN 9781541578913 (eb pdf) | ISBN 9781541557772 (lb : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Girls—Juvenile poetry. | Children’s poetry, American.
Classification: LCC PS3560.O37129 (ebook) | LCC PS3560.O37129 G57
2020 (print) | DDC 811/.54—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019001163
Manufactured in the United States of America
1-46171-46163-7/2/2019