Year of Mistaken Discoveries (24 page)

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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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First Simon Pulse hardcover edition February 2014

Text copyright © 2014 by Eileen Cook

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Cook, Eileen.

Year of mistaken discoveries / Eileen Cook. — First Simon Pulse hardcover edition. pages cm

Summary: Partnered with a boy named Brody, high school senior Avery embarks on a class project to find her birth mother, after Avery’s former best friend, also adopted, dies.

ISBN 978-1-4424-4022-7 (hardback) — ISBN 978-1-4424-4024-1 (eBook)

[1. Friendship—Fiction. 2. Adoption—Fiction. 3. Birthmothers—Fiction. 4.Dating (Social customs)—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.C76955Ye 2014

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