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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Mather, Janice Lynn, author.
Title: Learning to breathe / Janice Lynn Mather.
Description: First edition. | New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2018] | Summary: Sixteen-year-old Indy struggles to conceal that she is pregnant by rape and then, turned out by relatives, must find a way to survive on her own in Nassau.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017047526| ISBN 9781534406018 (hardback) | ISBN 9781534406032 (eBook)
Subjects: | CYAC: Pregnancy—Fiction. | Rape—Fiction. | Family life—Caribbean Area—Fiction. | Homeless persons—Fiction. | Yoga—Fiction. | Caribbean Area—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.1.M3766 Le 2018 | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017047526
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