ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thank you to the women who have helped me along the way:
Tamra Wight, who organizes an amazing writing retreat with Anna Jordan, Jeanne Bracken, Laura Hamor, Nancy Cooper, Val Giogas, Denise Ortakales, Cynthia Lord, and Mona Pease. Deep gratitude to Joyce Shor Johnson for reading through a whole early draft.
The aunties: Larissa Crockett, Jessie Forbes, Sarah Newkirk, and Lindsay Oakes.
All the amazing teachers and administrators I’ve had a chance to work with. All of my students, too.
My mother, Eileen Frazer.
Susan Tananbaum and Audrey Blakemore.
Sara Crowe, who always stands by me and my writing.
And to Alexandra Cooper, whose careful reading and conversations made this book stronger with each pass.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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MEGAN FRAZER BLAKEMORE grew up in a college town in New Hampshire. She attended Columbia University, where she earned a degree in English. After brief stints in the Peace Corps and the television industry, she pursued a master’s in library science at Simmons School of Library and Information Science. She has over ten years’ experience as a librarian and has taught writing to students in elementary through graduate school. She lives in Maine with her husband, two children, a cat, and two hives of bees. She is the author of other books for teens and young readers, including Very in Pieces; Secrets of Truth & Beauty, an Indie Next Kids’ Pick; The Water Castle, which was named a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year; The Friendship Riddle; The Spy Catchers of Maple Hill; and The Firefly Code. Learn more about Megan at www.meganfrazerblakemore.com.
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BOOKS BY MEGAN FRAZER BLAKEMORE
For Teens
Very in Pieces
Secrets of Truth & Beauty
Good and Gone
For Younger Readers
The Firefly Code
The Friendship Riddle
The Spy Catchers of Maple Hill
The Water Castle
CREDITS
COVER ART BY THOMAS DANTHONY
COVER DESIGN BY KATIE KLIMOWICZ
COPYRIGHT
HarperTeen is an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
GOOD AND GONE. Copyright © 2017 by Megan Frazer Blakemore. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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Names: Blakemore, Megan Frazer, author.
Title: Good and gone / Megan Frazer Blakemore.
Description: First Edition. | New York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2017. | Summary: While on a road trip with her depressed older brother and gay friend to find a missing musician, fifteen-year-old Lexi grapples with painful memories of sexual assualt by her ex-boyfriend.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016054197 | ISBN 9780062348425 (hardback)
EPub Edition © October 2017 ISBN 9780062348449
Subjects: | CYAC: Automobile travel—Fiction. | Brothers and sisters—Fiction. | Depression, Mental—Fiction. | Emotional problems—Fiction. | Rape—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.B574 Go 2017 | DDC [Fic]—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016054197
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