by Laura Ruby
Thanks always, always, always to Anne Ursu, Gretchen Moran Laskas, Linda Rasmussen, and Annika Cioffi—you know why. Melissa Ruby, you do, too.
Finally, thanks to Steve, who sees me like nobody else does.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
LAURA RUBY is the author of books for adults, teens, and children, including the Edgar-nominated mystery Lily’s Ghosts, the 2006 Book Sense Pick Good Girls, and the acclaimed novels Play Me and Bad Apple. She is on the faculty of Hamline University’s MFA in writing for children and young adults program and lives in the Chicago area. You can visit her online at www.lauraruby.com.
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BOOKS BY LAURA RUBY
Play Me
Good Girls
Bad Apple
Bone Gap
CREDITS
Cover art © 2015 by Sean Freeman
Cover design and hand lettering by Michelle Taormina
COPYRIGHT
Balzer + Bray is an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
BONE GAP. Copyright © 2015 by Laura Ruby. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ruby, Laura.
Bone Gap / Laura Ruby. — First edition.
pages cm
Summary: Eighteen-year-old Finn, an outsider in his quiet Midwestern town, is the only witness to the abduction of town favorite Roza, but his inability to distinguish between faces makes it difficult for him to help with the investigation, and subjects him to even more ridicule and bullying.
ISBN 978-0-06-231760-5 (hardcover)
EPub Edition © February 2015 ISBN 9780062317636
[1. Kidnapping—Fiction. 2. Face perception—Fiction. 3. Interpersonal relations—Fiction. 4. Bullying—Fiction. 5. Brothers—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.R83138Bon 2015
2014013676
[Fic]—dc23
CIP
AC
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