Authors: J. T. Dutton
Stranded (16 page)
Many thanks are due: the first to Phoebe Yeh and Amanda Glickman at HarperCollins. Thank you also to Mark Rifkin and Kathryn Hinds, who did the hard work of correcting my strange version of punctuation. Thank you, Jodie Rhodes, for your incredible representation. Thank you, Jennifer Kaalberg-Freers, for answering my Iowa questions; Dawn Gallo Scarpelli, for helping me with the legal research; Dr. Chris Dutton, for knowing so much about pigs; and Beth Greenwood, for helping me proof early drafts and manage motherhood along with authorship. Thank you, Julie and Lorie, my workshop friends. I could not do without your insights. Thank you, David, Sarah, Ben, Joanne, and Mom and Dad.
Thank you so much, Jeff, Cass, and Zoe, for being patient during my hardworking days and for helping me see one more dream come true.
J. T. DUTTON
is the author of
FREAKED
, her debut novel. She was born in Connecticut, attended Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, and afterward spent time in Portland, Maine, and New York City before moving to Alaska to attend the University of Alaska Fairbanks MFA program. Her interests include backpacking, horseback riding, and yoga. She lives in eastern Ohio with her husband, her two children, and her cat. You can visit her online at www.jtdutton.com.
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STRANDED
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Dutton, J. T., date
Stranded / J.T. Dutton.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: When fifteen-year-old Kelly Louise and her mother move to Heaven, Iowa, to live with her grandmother and cousin, she learns a terrible secret about a baby recently left to die in a cornfield and must decide whether or not to tell the truth.
ISBN 978-0-06-137082-3
[1. Moving, Household—Fiction. 2. Conduct of life—Fiction. 3. Cousins—Fiction. 4. Abandoned children—Fiction. 5. Grandmothers—Fiction. 6. High schools—Fiction. 7. Schools—Fiction. 8. Iowa—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.D948Str 2010 2009023548
[Fic]—dc22 CIP
AC
FIRST EDITION
EPub Edition © April 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-199843-0
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