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  Copyright

  This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  Don’t Breathe a Word

  Text copyright © 2011 by Holly Cupala

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cupala, Holly.

  Don’t breathe a word by Holly Cupala. —1st ed.

  p. cm.

  Summary: Joy Delamere is suffocating from severe asthma, overprotective parents, and an emotionally-abusive boyfriend when she escapes to the streets of nearby Seattle and falls in with a “street family” that teaches her to use a strength she did not know she had.

  ISBN 978-0-06-176669-5

  [1. Self-actualization (Psychology)—Fiction. 2. Homeless persons—Fiction. 3. Street children—Fiction. 4. Asthma—Fiction. 5. Psychological abuse—Fiction. 6. Family life—Washington—Seattle—Fiction. 7. Seattle (Wash.)—Fiction.] I. Title. II. Title: Do not breathe a word.

  PZ7.C91747Don 2011

  [Fic]—dc22

  2011009147

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  FIRST EDITION

  Epub Edition © NOVEMBER 2011 ISBN: 9780062094049

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