by Sarah Ockler
Librarians, booksellers, teachers, bloggers, and readers, without your passion for young adult literature, my stories would be trees falling in a desolate forest. Thank you for hearing me, and for telling the world about the books you love.
To borrow Patrick’s words on true friends, “I wouldn’t trade one of them for a hundred of the other kind.” Amy Hains, my WBF, Delilah’s strength is yours, and Emily is infused with the goodness of your friendship. Rachel Miller, Delilah’s admiration for your namesake character is matched only by my admiration for you, and that’s not an uncompliment. Thank you both for reading my work, crying at all the right parts, and always believing in me.
My family, my family-in-law, and my lifelong Dunkirk crew are the ones who keep showing up, buying books, and squealing in my general direction at public venues. You crazy people really know how to make a girl feel like a star.
From Delilah’s first words in Fairplay, Colorado, to her last in Buffalo, NY (and that whole teeth-gnashing part in the middle), lots of readers and writers donated their time, expertise, and literary companionship to the noble purpose of keeping me sane. Thank you, Danielle Benedetti, Megan Frazer, Cheryl Renee Herbsman, Jennifer Jabaley, Sarah MacLean, Jenny Moss, Jackson Pearce, Carrie Ryan, Meredith Sale, Kurtis Scaletta, Sharon Somers, Michelle Zink, Lighthouse Writers Workshop, The 2009 Debutantes, and The Tenners.
Above all, my deepest gratitude is for Alex, my pet monster, my best friend, my husband, my heart. You are the reason it’s easy for me to write about falling in love. There are pieces of this story that once belonged to you, and I love you for making them ours. Thanks for “hacer-te-ing the café” and wandering this world with me in the middle of the night. I’m totally keeping you.
Table of Contents
Front Cover Image
Welcome
Dedication
A Q&A with Sarah Ockler, author of Fixing Delilah
Chapter one
Chapter two
Chapter three
Chapter four
Chapter five
Chapter six
Chapter seven
Chapter eight
Chapter nine
Chapter ten
Chapter eleven
Chapter twelve
Chapter thirteen
Chapter fourteen
Chapter fifteen
Chapter sixteen
Chapter seventeen
Chapter eighteen
Chapter nineteen
Chapter twenty
Chapter twenty-one
Chapter twenty-two
Chapter twenty-three
Chapter twenty-four
Chapter twenty-five
Chapter twenty-six
Chapter twenty-seven
Chapter twenty-eight
Chapter twenty-nine
Chapter thirty
Chapter thirty-one
Chapter thirty-two
Chapter thirty-three
Chapter thirty-four
Acknowledgments
Copyright
Copyright
Copyright © by 2010 Sarah Ockler
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First eBook Edition: December 2010
ISBN: 978-0-316-12915-2
The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.
Table of Contents
Front Cover Image
Welcome
Dedication
A Q&A with Sarah Ockler, author of Fixing Delilah
Chapter one
Chapter two
Chapter three
Chapter four
Chapter five
Chapter six
Chapter seven
Chapter eight
Chapter nine
Chapter ten
Chapter eleven
Chapter twelve
Chapter thirteen
Chapter fourteen
Chapter fifteen
Chapter sixteen
Chapter seventeen
Chapter eighteen
Chapter nineteen
Chapter twenty
Chapter twenty-one
Chapter twenty-two
Chapter twenty-three
Chapter twenty-four
Chapter twenty-five
Chapter twenty-six
Chapter twenty-seven
Chapter twenty-eight
Chapter twenty-nine
Chapter thirty
Chapter thirty-one
Chapter thirty-two
Chapter thirty-three
Chapter thirty-four
Acknowledgments
Copyright