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melanie sumrow
Melanie Sumrow is the award-winning author of fiction for teens, including the Golden Kite Award for Young Adult Fiction, an ITW Thriller Award Finalist, an Odyssey Honor Award and an AudioFile Earphones Award. Before becoming an author, she worked as a lawyer for more than 16 years, with many of her cases involving children and teens. She received her MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Hamline University and lives in Dallas.
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"This is a heavy, heartbreaking read, and Sumrow has painstakingly painted a very real picture of how a teenaged girl can easily end up in Ruby’s situation."
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