Thank you to my amazing agent, Suzie Townsend, for not batting an eye when I said I wanted to write a college-set YA about a girl who’s obsessed with a twenty-year-old TV show. You are the best! My thanks also to Sara Stricker for all her help, and to everyone at New Leaf Literary & Media.
To Amy V. Bland and Kimberly Damitz, for dinners, drinks, and dough nuggets.
Thank you to Lydia Kang, my friend and fellow author, for helping me figure out a profession for Caroline’s mother. (Any mistakes in the description of such are mine. I took liberties.)
Thank you to Linnea Sinclair for being my critique partner, sounding board, and sanity-check person. To my parents, Stephen and Judy Barnes, who live through every book with me: tears, frustrations, and joys—thank you for always picking up when I call! To my sister and fellow Valpo grad, Susan, who listens patiently and makes me laugh. To my brother, Michael, and his family—Jess, Grace, and Josh—for all their support. And to Age, Dana, and Quinn, for introducing me to Last Night on Earth (#teamzombie) and for so many conversations about this book!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
STACEY KADE is the author of the Ghost and the Goth trilogy (The Ghost and the Goth, Queen of the Dead, and Body & Soul), the Project Paper Doll series (The Rules, The Hunt, and The Trials), and For This Life Only. She lives in a suburb of Chicago with her husband and two retired racing greyhounds. Find her on Twitter (@staceykade), Instagram (@authorstaceykade), and her website, staceykade.com.
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Novels for Young Adults
For This Life Only
The Ghost and the Goth
Body & Soul
Project Paper Doll: The Rules
Project Paper Doll: The Hunt
Project Paper Doll: The Trials
Novels for Adults
Bitter Pill
738 Days
Starlight Nights
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Title: Finding Felicity / Stacey Kade.
Description: First edition.
| New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2018] |
Summary: Caroline must leave behind her fantasy world inspired by a 1990s television show and create a real life at college, despite her mother’s concerns and her own self-doubt.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017015756 | ISBN 9781481464253 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781481464277 (eBook)
Subjects: | CYAC: Interpersonal relations—Fiction. | Honesty—Fiction. | Self-esteem—Fiction. | Universities and colleges—Fiction. | Mothers and daughters—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.K116463 Fin 2018 | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017015756