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  Cover art © 2014 by Steven Bonner / Jelly London

  Cover design by Michelle Taormina

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  TEEN SPIRIT

  Copyright © 2014 by Francesca Lia Block

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Block, Francesca Lia.

  Teen spirit / Francesca Lia Block. — First edition.

  pages cm

  Summary: “Julie wanted nothing more than to feel connected to her deceased grandmother, but when she actually makes contact with the other side it’s not her grandmother that responds, but a spirit that has its own sinister agenda”—Provided by publisher.

  ISBN 978-0-06-200809-1 (hardcover bdg.)

  [1. Supernatural—Fiction. 2. Spirits—Fiction. 3. Grandmothers—Fiction. 4. Dead—Fiction. 5. Single-parent families—Fiction. 6. Dating (Social customs)—Fiction. 7. Beverly Hills (Calif.)—Fiction.] I. Title.

  PZ7.B61945Tee 2014

  2013008057

  [Fic]—dc23

  CIP

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  EPub Edition © DECEMBER 2013 ISBN: 9780062239167

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