One True Way

by Shannon Hitchcock

  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Names: Hitchcock, Shannon, author.

  Title: One true way / by Shannon Hitchcock.

  Description: First edition. | New York : Scholastic Press, 2018. | Summary: From the moment she met Samantha, star of the school basketball team, on her first day at Daniel Boone Middle School, Allison Drake felt she had found a friend, something she needs badly since her brother died and her father left--but as their friendship grows it begins to evolve into a deeper emotion, and in North Carolina in 1977, it is not easy to discover that you might be gay.

  Identifiers: LCCN 2017020254 | ISBN 9781338181722 (jktd hardcover : alk. paper)

  Subjects: LCSH: Lesbians—Juvenile fiction. | Identity (Psychology)—Juvenile fiction. | Mothers and daughters—Juvenile fiction. | Friendship—Juvenile fiction. | Bereavement—Juvenile fiction. | Families—North Carolina—20th century—Juvenile fiction. | North Carolina—Social life and customs—20th century—Juvenile fiction. | CYAC: Lesbians—Fiction. | Identity—Fiction. | Mothers and daughters—Fiction. | Friendship—Fiction. | Grief—Fiction. | Family life—North Carolina—20th century—Fiction. | North Carolina—Social life and customs—20th century—Fiction. | LCGFT: Bildungsromans. | Historical fiction.

  Classification: LCC PZ7.H629557 On 2018 | DDC 813.6 [Fic]—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017020254

  First edition, March 2018

  Cover design by Maeve Norton

  Cover art © 2018 by Maeve Norton

  e-ISBN 978-1-338-18173-9

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