Love & Gelato (41 page)

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

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First Simon Pulse hardcover edition May 2016

Text copyright © 2016 by Jenna Evans Welch

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Welch, Jenna Evans, author.

Title: Love & gelato / by Jenna Evans Welch.

Other titles: Love and gelato

Description: Simon Pulse hardcover edition. | New York : Simon Pulse, 2016. |

Summary: “After her mother dies, Lina travels to Italy where she discovers her mother's journal and sets off on an adventure to unearth her mother's secrets”—Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015029210 | ISBN 9781481432542 (hardback)

Subjects: | CYAC: Secrets—Fiction. | Love—Fiction. | Diaries—Fiction. |

Mothers and daughters—Fiction. | Fathers and daughters—Fiction. |

Identity—Fiction. | Italy—Fiction. | BISAC: JUVENILE FICTION / Love & Romance. | JUVENILE FICTION / Family / General (see also headings under Social Issues).

Classification: LCC PZ7.1.W435 Lo 2016 | DDC [Fic]—dc23

LC record available at
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ISBN 9781481432566 (eBook)