C. Omololu - Dirty Little Secrets

Copyright © 2010 by C. J. Omololu

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First published in the United States of America in February 2010 by

Walker Publishing Company, Inc., a division of Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc.

E-book edition published in August 2010

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Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:

Omololu, Cynthia Jaynes.

Dirty little secrets / by C. J. Omololu.

p. cm.

Summary: When her unstable mother dies unexpectedly, sixteen-year-old Lucy must take control and find a way to keep the long-held secret of her mother’s compulsive hoarding from being revealed to friends, neighbors, and especially the media.

ISBN 978-0-8027-8660-9 (hardcover) • ISBN: 978-0-8027-2233-1 (paperback)

[1. Secrets—Fiction. 2. Compulsive behavior—Fiction. 3. Mothers and daughters—Fiction.

4. Death—Fiction. 5. Self-reliance—Fiction. 6. High schools—Fiction. 7. Schools—

Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.O54858Dir 2010 [Fic]—dc22 2009022461

ISBN 978-0-8027-2254-6 (e-book)