Golden (32 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.

Text copyright © 2013 by Jessi Kirby

Illustration copyright © 2013 by Emily Caisip

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Kirby, Jessi.

Golden / Jessi Kirby. — 1st ed.

p. cm.

Summary: “Seventeen-year-old Parker Frost has never taken the road less traveled. Valedictorian and quintessential good girl, she's about to graduate high school without ever having kissed her crush or broken the rules. So when fate drops a clue in her lap—one that might be the key to unraveling a town mystery—she decides to take a chance.”—Provided by publisher.

ISBN 978-1-4424-5216-9 (hardback) — ISBN 978-1-4424-5225-1 (eBook)

[1. Choice—Fiction. 2. Conduct of life—Fiction. 3. Mothers and daughters—Fiction. 4. Diaries—Fiction. 5. Love—Fiction. 6. Family problems—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.K633522Gol 2013

[Fic]—dc23

2012042216