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Text copyright © 2019 by Frances O’Roark Dowell
Illustrations copyright © 2019 by Amy Marie Stadelmann
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Dowell, Frances O’Roark, author.
Title: The class / Frances O’Roark Dowell.
Description: First edition. | New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2019] | Summary: “A sixth-grade class comes together to support a classmate in need, each of them giving their own perspective on the goings on”—Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018005019 | ISBN 9781481481793 (hardcover) |
ISBN 9781481481816 (eBook)
Subjects: | CYAC: Middle schools—Fiction. | Schools—Fiction. |
Interpersonal relations—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.D75455 Cl 2019 | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018005019
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