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The Spaces Between Us

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by Stacia Tolman


  But Grimshaw is dead, so that means I have to do it.

  acknowledgments

  Thank you to the many friends, readers, and fellow travelers for reading, commenting, encouraging, and generally hanging in over the course of the creation of this book. To Cowboy, the taxi driver in St. Louis who squired me to the Chain of Rocks Bridge on the fourth of July and gave me some of the best lines in the book. To my students over the years for getting me to teach what I needed to learn. To my family for being such good storytellers. To the people of the Mohawk Valley of New York State. To the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts for their early support. And, most especially, to Wayland.

  Thank you to my agent Sorche Fairbank for finding the book such a good home. A thank you to Christy Ottaviano for seeing the story’s potential, to Jessica Anderson for helping shape the book, and to them both for their belief in it. And thank you to the rest of the team at Henry Holt Books for Young Readers.

  About the Author

  Stacia Tolman is a writer and freelance editor whose work has appeared in the Keene Sentinel and the Massachusetts Review, among other publications. She won a New Hampshire State Council on the Arts grant for fiction, based on an early excerpt of The Spaces Between Us. A former prep school English teacher, Stacia lives in New Hampshire. You can sign up for email updates here.

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  contents

  Title Page

  Copyright Notice

  Dedication

  One

  Two

  Three

  Four

  Five

  Six

  Seven

  Eight

  Nine

  Ten

  Eleven

  Twelve

  Thirteen

  Fourteen

  Fifteen

  Sixteen

  Acknowledgments

  About the Author

  Copyright

  Copyright © 2019 by Stacia Tolman

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Names: Tolman, Stacia, author.

  Title: The spaces between us / Stacia Tolman.

  Description: First edition. | New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2019. | “Christy Ottaviano Books.” | Summary: Outcasts and best friends Serena Velasco and Melody Grimshaw strive together to survive senior year and break away from their rural factory town.

  Identifiers: LCCN 2018039241 | ISBN 978-1-250-17492-5 (hardcover)

  Subjects: | CYAC: Best friends—Fiction. | Friendship—Fiction. | Coming of age—Fiction. | High schools—Fiction. | Schools—Fiction. | Family problems—Fiction.

  Classification: LCC PZ7.1.T6238 Sp 2019 | DDC [Fic]—dc23

  LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018039241

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  First hardcover edition, 2019

  eBook edition, July 2019

  eISBN 9781250174932

 

 

 


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