And finally, but foremost, thank you to God for planting this passion in my heart and protecting me every step of the way.
About the Author
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Beth Turley is a graduate of the MFA in Creative and Professional Writing program at Western Connecticut State University. She lives in southeastern Connecticut and teaches writing as an adjunct. If This Were a Story is her first novel.
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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Text copyright © 2018 by Beth Turley
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Turley, Beth, author.
Title: If this were a story / Beth Turley.
Description: First edition. | New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2018] | Summary: Ten-year-old Hannah copes with the bullies at school and trouble at home through the power of her imagination.
Subjects: | CYAC: Imagination—Fiction. | Bullying—Fiction. | Family problems—Fiction. | Middle schools—Fiction. | Schools—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.1.T875 If 2018 | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017043725