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All playlist songs exist.

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Except this one.

So much gratitude to the following:

Anyone who's reading this now. You are the reason. Thank you.

My exceptional book agent—Lisa Gallagher—for her endless passion and support and enthusiasm.

Chelsea Eberly, both for her mad editorial skills and for the gift of collaboration. This book came about through a magical alchemy where one person says a thing, and the other person says a thing, and then they come to a whole
different
thing that is far better than either of the original things. That happened a lot, and it was both extraordinary and extraordinarily fun.

Michelle Nagler, for letting me talk about ideas, and for listening, and then for taking a chance.

Alison Kolani and Barbara Bakowski in Copyediting, Jocelyn Lange in Subsidiary Rights, Heather Palisi in Design, and the entire Sales, Marketing, and Publicity teams at Random House Children's Books, who are too numerous to name but are fantastic champions.

Barrett Gregory for the fun photo sesh and great new head shots.

Elise Allen and Nina Berry—my fantastic author friends who took time from their
own
books to read my initial pitch pages.

The writing and support staff of
Grey's Anatomy,
season 12…with an extra-special thanks to Andy Reaser for “PMGO.”

Sara Rae Dodson—who was the first Real Live Teen to read this book—for her breakneck pace, insightful thoughts, and fearless honesty.

Nicole Desperito, for joining my chaotic village, for reading early drafts, for helping bring order to the chaos, and for letting me learn through teaching.

Countless numbers of friends and family, who are my cheering squad, my necessary distraction, my loves.

JEN KLEIN
lives in Los Angeles with her husband and a menagerie of little boys and animals, all of whom are unruly and ill-behaved. When she's not writing YA novels, Jen is an Emmy-nominated television writer, currently writing on the series
Grey's Anatomy.
Visit her online at
jenkleinbooks.com
and follow her on Twitter at
@jenkleintweets
.