Girls with Sharp Sticks
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The day I was born.
You will be sweet, he promised threatened
You will be beautiful
You will obey fight back
And then he I told me myself
Above all
You will have a kind razor heart.
For that, they will love fear you.
They will protect revere you
They will keep run from you
Because you belong to them no one.
So be a girl to make them proud afraid.
Acknowledgments
This book is for the girls who have suffered and fought for years, unacknowledged. I believe you. I see you. And I’ll fight with you.
About the Author
Author photograph by Dawn Goei
SUZANNE YOUNG is the New York Times bestselling author of the Program series. Originally from Utica, New York, Suzanne moved to Arizona to pursue her dream of not freezing to death. She is a novelist and an English teacher, but not always in that order. Suzanne is the author of The Program, The Treatment, The Remedy, The Epidemic, The Adjustment, The Complication, Hotel for the Lost, All in Pieces, and A Need So Beautiful.
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ALSO BY SUZANNE YOUNG
The Program Series
Book 1: The Program
Book 2: The Treatment
Book 3: The Remedy
Book 4: The Epidemic
Book 5: The Adjustment
Book 6: The Complication
Hotel for the Lost
All in Pieces
Just Like Fate
(with Cat Patrick)
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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Young, Suzanne, author.
Title: Girls with sharp sticks / by Suzanne Young.
Description: First Simon Pulse hardcover edition. | New York : Simon Pulse, 2019. | Summary: In the near future at a girls-only private high school isolated in the Colorado mountains, Mena and her classmates—under the watchful eyes of their Guardian, professors, and analyst—are trained to be beautiful and obedient for their sponsors and investors.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018033509 (print) | LCCN 2018040016 (eBook) |
ISBN 9781534426139 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781534426153 (eBook)
Subjects: | CYAC: Private schools—Fiction. | Schools—Fiction. |
Cyborgs—Fiction. | Science fiction. | Classification: LCC PZ7.Y887 (eBook) |
LCC PZ7.Y887 Gi 2019 (print) | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018033509