by E. L. Shen
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Mornings
Self-Portrait
Wounds
Nightmares
New Girl
On Fire
Why Math Class Is the Worst
The Package
Nighttime Secrets
Main Street Blues
Dress Rehearsal
A Revolution
Ballet Blunder
Competition Day
Sing, Sing, Sing
A Tough Landing
Icy Apologies
Jennie
Ready or Not
The Results Are In
Cannon Fire
Pretending
A Little TLC
A Light Bulb Goes Off
Dance It Out
America, America
Putting on a Show
Victory
A Few Surprises
Worried
The Field Trip
The Truth
Last Melody
The Comeback
Singing Along
Sectionals
Let’s Do This
The Final Skate
The Beginning and the End
Home
Author’s Note
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Copyright
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271
Text copyright © 2021 by E. L. Shen
All rights reserved
First hardcover edition, 2021
eBook edition, 2021
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Names: Shen, E. L., author.
Title: The comeback / E.L. Shen.
Description: First edition. | New York: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, 2021. | Audience: Ages 8-12. | Audience: Grades 4-6. | Summary: Twelve-year-old Maxine Chen dreams of being a figure skating champion, but a remarkably talented new girl at the arena and a racist classmate at school test her resolve.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020009861 | ISBN 9780374313791 (hardcover)
Subjects: CYAC: Ice skating—Fiction. | Racism—Fiction. | Asian Americans—Fiction. | Family life—New York (State)—Lake Placid—Fiction. | Middle schools—Fiction. | Schools—Fiction. | Lake Placid (N.Y.)—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.1.S51425 Com 2021 | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020009861
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