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  1. Dedication
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  23. Acknowledgments
  24. About the Author
  25. Books by Joelle Charbonneau
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  28. About the Publisher

Words have power only if they are heard or read. I am so grateful to each of the librarians, teachers, booksellers, and readers for taking the time to let my words into their lives. You are the reason my words are more than just a bunch of letters on a page. It is you and your imagination that bring them to life.

And finally, I would be remiss in these acknowledgments if I didn’t extend my gratitude to the men and women of the fourth estate who are the living, breathing embodiment of the First Amendment. We are counting on you to keep asking questions even if they make us uncomfortable and verifying answers no matter whether they are the ones we want to hear. Words have power. We are depending on you to keep using yours.

About the Author

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JOELLE CHARBONNEAU has performed in opera and musical-theater productions across Chicagoland. She is the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Testing trilogy and the bestselling Dividing Eden series, as well as two adult mystery series and several other books for young adult readers. Her YA books have appeared on the Indie Next List, YALSA’s Top Ten Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, and state reading lists across the country. Joelle lives in the Chicago area with her husband and son.

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Books by Joelle Charbonneau

Dividing Eden

Eden Conquered

Into the Garden (digital novella)

Forbidden Fruit (digital novella)

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Copyright

HarperTeen is an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

VERIFY. Copyright © 2019 by Joelle Charbonneau. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. 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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Cover art © 2019 by Edel Rodriguez

Cover design by Jenna Stempel-Lobell

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Charbonneau, Joelle, author.

Title: Verify/Joelle Charbonneau

Description: New York, NY : HarperTeen, [2019] | Summary: Chicago teen Meri Beckley’s pride of living in a land of peace, prosperity, and truth crumbles when questions following her mother’s death reveal buried facts, especially that words can have great power.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019009520 | ISBN 9780062803627 (hardback)

Subjects: | CYAC: Grief—Fiction. | Honesty—Fiction. | Government, Resistance to—Fiction.

Classification: LCC PZ7.C37354 Ver 2019 | DDC [Fic]—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019009520