acknowledgments
All my gratitude to the generous brains of Nico Carver, Liesa Abrams, and Sarah McCabe. And to my creator, Stephen Barr.
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MAGGIE THRASH grew up in the South. She is the author of the graphic memoir Honor Girl and a contributor to the online teen magazine Rookie. She attended Hampshire College and the Sewanee School of Letters. She now lives in Delaware.
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Names: Thrash, Maggie, author.
Title: We know it was you : a Strange truth novel / by Maggie Thrash.
Description: Simon Pulse Hardcover edition. | New York : Simon Pulse, 2016. | Summary: When the Winship Academy mascot jumps off a bridge during a halftime show, she leaves behind a lot of questions, and two students who witnessed the scene firsthand are determined to find out what really happened.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015041347 (print) | LCCN 2016018998 (ebook) | ISBN9781481462006 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781481462020 (ebook) | Subjects: | CYAC: Mystery and detective stories. | Suicide—Fiction. | High schools—Fiction. | Schools—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.1.T53 We 2016 (print) | LCC PZ7.1.T53 (ebook) | DDC [Fic]—dc23
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