JESSICA MARTINEZ lives in sunny Florida but loves writing about her icy Canadian roots. She studied English at Brigham Young University and is now a mother, a runner, and a violinist. When all her siblings get together to play music, she is the bossy one, but it’s not her fault. Someone has to do it. She is also the author of Virtuosity. Find out more at jessicamartinez.com.
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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Martinez, Jessica.
The space between us / Jessica Martinez.
p. cm.
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Amelia feels like her life might be getting back on track after a bad breakup when her younger sister’s pregnancy gets them both banished to Canada, where new relationships are forged, giving Amelia a new perspective.
ISBN 978-1-4424-2055-7 (hardcover) [1. Sisters—Fiction. 2. Pregnancy—Fiction. 3. High schools—Fiction. 4. Schools—Fiction.
5. Calgary (Alb.)—Fiction. 6. Canada—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.M36715Sp 2012
[Fic]—dc23
2011038019
ISBN 978-1-4424-2057-1 (eBook)
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