Not Otherwise Specified (28 page)

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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.

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This Simon Pulse edition March 2015

Text copyright © 2015 by Hannah Moskowitz

Cover photograph of girl copyright © 2015 by Jill Wachter

Cover photograph of pool table copyright © 2015 by Jasper James/Millennium Images

Cover photo-illustration copyright © 2015 by David Field

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Cover designed by Karina Granda

Interior designed by Hilary Zarycky

The text of this book was set in Electra LT Std.

Jacket designed by Karina Granda

Jacket photograph of girl copyright © 2015 by Jill Wachter

Jscket photograph of pool table copyright © 2015 by Jasper James/Millennium Images

Jacket photo-illustration copyright © 2015 by David Field

The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:

Moskowitz, Hannah.

Not otherwise specified / Hannah Moskowitz. — First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.

p. cm.

Summary: Auditioning for a New York City performing arts high school could help Etta escape from her Nebraska all-girls school, where she is not gay enough for her former friends, not sick enough for her eating disorders group, and not thin enough for ballet, but it may also mean real friendships.

[1. Interpersonal relations—Fiction. 2. Bisexuality—Fiction. 3. Performing arts—Fiction. 4. Bullying—Fiction. 5. Eating disorders—Fiction. 6. African Americans—Fiction. 7. Nebraska—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.M84947Not 2015 [Fic]--dc23 2014011032

ISBN 978-1-4814-0596-6 (hc)

ISBN 978-1-4814-0595-9 (pbk)

ISBN 978-1-4814-0598-0 (eBook)