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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Part One: Home
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Part Two: Lost
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Part Three: Staying Strong
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty-One
Part Four: Finding Someplace
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Author’s Note
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Copyright Page
Copyright © 2015 by Denise Lewis Patrick
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Patrick, Denise Lewis.
Finding someplace / Denise Lewis Patrick. — First edition.
pages cm
Summary: The weekend she turns thirteen, aspiring clothing designer Teresa “Reesie” Boone is separated from her family by Hurricane Katrina but, during the horrific storm and its aftermath, begins to find strength in herself.
ISBN 978-0-8050-4716-5 (hardback) — ISBN 978-1-62779-423-7 (e-book)
[1. Hurricane Katrina, 2005—Fiction. 2. Family life—Louisiana—New Orleans—Fiction. 3. African Americans—Fiction. 4. New Orleans (La.)—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.P2747Fin 2015 [Fic]—dc23 2015000561
First hardcover edition 2015
eBook edition August 2015
eISBN 9781627794237