Learning to Swear in America (36 page)

Additional thanks to Dr. Katrin Flikschuh, Kristin Stanchina, Megan Miller, and Mary Ellen Kennedy.

I’m indebted to the incredible team of moderators and administrators at the SCBWI Blueboard. Thanks for the sparkles and “research help.” Yeah, you know who you are, and you know what I mean. Tell no one.

Kate McKean is the Yuri Strelnikov of agents: she’s smart and knows how to take chances. Kate, thanks for taking a chance on Yuri and me.

Thanks also to my editor at Bloomsbury, Sarah Shumway. This book is better because she touched it. Sarah, congratulations on your biggest—also littlest—recent project. Françoise Bui went above and beyond. Linda Minton copyedited the manuscript. The hush money is on the way, Linda.

Thanks to the rest of the team at Bloomsbury for their expertise and support, especially Claire Stetzer, Diane Aronson, Lizzy Mason, Donna Mark, Melissa Kavonic, Catherine Onder, Cindy Loh, and Colleen Andrews.

I don’t even know how to go about thanking my family. John Robert McFarland and Helen McFarland taught me about love and
stories. What else is there? Mary Beth McFarland shared that journey with me. Patrick Kennedy understands that when I’m sitting in a chair staring into space, I’m working. Thanks, Boogums.

And more thanks than my heart can hold to Brigid Kennedy and Joseph Kennedy, who make life worth living and the world worth saving. I love you.

Copyright © 2016 by Kathleen Kennedy

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

First published in the United States of America in July 2016

by Bloomsbury Children’s Books

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Kennedy, Katie.

Title: Learning to swear in America / by Katie Kennedy.

Description: New York : Bloomsbury Children’s Books, 2016.

Summary: Brought over from Russia to help NASA prevent an asteroid from colliding with Earth, seventeen-year-old physics genius Yuri feels awkward and alone until he meets free-spirited Dovie.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015025454

ISBN 978-1-61963-909-6 (hardcover) • ISBN 978-1-61963-910-2 (e-book)

Subjects: | CYAC: Asteroids—Fiction. | Survival—Fiction. | Genius—Fiction. | Love—Fiction. | Russians—United States—Fiction. | Science fiction. | BISAC: JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / New Experience. | JUVENILE FICTION / Science Fiction. | JUVENILE FICTION / Love & Romance. | JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / Survival Stories.

Classification: LCC PZ7.1.K505 Le 2016 | DDC [Fic]—dc23

LC record available at
http://lccn.loc.gov/2015025454

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