To the students and colleagues (Angie!) who suffered through endless conversations about the birth of this book, thanks for pretending to listen and making me feel famous. (Jake!) And Zach—Devon is not you, though his love of Gaga is all your fault.
Finally I thank my family. My parents, Lynn and Robbie, who taught me that books make excellent home decor, the library is better than Six Flags, and summer reading lists mean trips to the bookstore. Thank you for raising a challenging, creative kid and for teaching me to love the written word. To my brother, Ken, and his wife, Lorraine, and to my awesome-sauce nephew and nieces, Jack, Kathleen, and Susan, you are the coolest. You can show your friends at school I said so.
To Emily and Abel—the bravest people I know. I love you more than anything.
And to R. for the magic carpet ride. It’s all because of you. Let’s keep flying over the horizon, letting the music play loud, catching our dreams.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
JAYE ROBIN BROWN lives in the mountains of Western North Carolina, and teaches art at a public high school. This is her first novel. You can visit her online at www.jayerobinbrown.com.
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Cover design by Alison Klapthor
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NO PLACE TO FALL. Copyright © 2014 by J. K. Robinson. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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Brown, Jaye Robin.
No place to fall / by Jaye Robin Brown. — First edition.
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Summary: Sixteen-year-old Amber Vaughn dreams of attending the North Carolina School of the Arts to gain confidence in using her amazing singing voice, but her family is falling apart and she is torn between two boys.
ISBN 978-0-06-227099-3 (hardcover)
EPUB Edition © October 2014 ISBN 9780062270979
[1. Singers—Fiction. 2. Family problems—Fiction. 3. Dating (Social customs)—Fiction. 4. High schools—Fiction. 5. Schools—Fiction. 6. North Carolina—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.B814197No 2014
2013051284
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