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Authors: Ellen Wittlinger

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2007 by Ellen Wittlinger

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Wittlinger, Ellen.

Parrotfish / Ellen Wittlinger. — 1st ed.

p. cm.

Summary: Grady, a transgendered high school student, yearns for acceptance by his classmates and family as he struggles to adjust to his new identity as a male.

ISBN 978-1-4169-1622-2

ISBN 978-1-4424-6681-4(eBook)

[1. Transsexuals—Fiction. 2. Identity—Fiction. 3. Family problems—Fiction.]
I. Title. II. Title: Parrot fish.

PZ7.W7817Par 2007

[Fic]—dc22 2006009689

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