OyMG (20 page)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

A special thanks to:

Erik Dominguez, coach of Desert Vista High School's Thunder Speech, Theater and Debate Company. I was fortunate to learn from and observe the best. (As of this writing in 2010, DV has won seven consecutive state championships!)

Bill Andrew, cofounder of the Summit School of Ahwatukee, who agreed to answer a few questions and ended up answering a few hundred.

My family and friends, including Sue, my sounding board; Daphne, who read two years of rough drafts; Dorothy, who had answers for all my odd questions; and Kyle, for reading each chapter as I wrote it and asking for more.

A heartfelt thanks to my agent, Caryn Wiseman, for seeing the potential in a first page. And to my editor, Stacy Cantor Abrams, for her insight and care in bringing this book to life.

Finally, and most especially, to Jake. For always believing.

Copyright © 2011 by Amy Fellner Dominy
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First published in the United States of America in May 2011
by Walker Publishing Company, Inc., a division of Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc.
E-book edition published in May 2011
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Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:
Dominy, Amy Fellner.
OyMG / Amy Fellner Dominy.
p. cm.

Summary: Fourteen-year-old Ellie will do almost anything to win a scholarship to the best speech school in the country, but must decide if she is willing to hide her Jewish heritage while at a Phoenix, Arizona, summer camp that could help her reach her goal.
ISBN 978-0-8027-2177-8 (hardcover)

[1. Camps—Fiction. 2. Debates and debating—Fiction. 3. Public speaking—Fiction. 4. Prejudices—Fiction. 5. Jews—Arizona—Fiction. 6. Individuality—Fiction. 7. Arizona—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.D71184Oym 2011 [Fic]—dc22 2010034581

ISBN 978-0-8027-2319-2 (e-book)