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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Ramos, NoNieqa, author.
Title: The truth is / by NoNieqa Ramos.
Description: Minneapolis, MN : Carolrhoda Lab, [2019] | Summary: Closed
off and grieving her best friend, fifteen-year-old overachiever Verdad faces
prejudices at school and from her traditional mother, her father’s distance since
his remarriage, and her attraction to a transgender classmate.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018042053 (print) | LCCN 2018049450 (ebook) |
ISBN 9781541561038 (eb pdf) | ISBN 9781541528772 (th : alk. paper)
Subjects: | CYAC: Interpersonal relations—Fiction. | Grief—Fiction. |
Transgender people—Fiction. | Racially mixed people—Fiction. | Family life—
Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.1.R3656 (ebook) | LCC PZ7.1.R3656 Tru 2020 (print) |
DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018042053
Manufactured in the United States of America
1-44717-35554-1/25/2019