The Latent Powers of Dylan Fontaine (17 page)

Acknowledgments

I’d like to thank my friends and members of my critique group: Varian Johnson, Julie Lake, Brian Yansky, and Frances Hill Yansky; my agent, Laura Rennert; my talented editor, Françoise Bui, who loved Dylan from the start; and my husband, Ed, who laughed at all the funny parts.

About the Author

April Lurie is a native New Yorker. She is the author of
Brothers, Boyfriends & Other Criminal Minds
and
Dancing in the Streets of Brooklyn
. She lives near Austin, Texas, with her husband and their four children. Visit her at
www.aprillurie.com
.

ALSO BY APRIL LURIE

Brothers, Boyfriends & Other Criminal Minds

Dancing in the Streets of Brooklyn

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2008 by April Lurie

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Lurie, April.

The latent powers of Dylan Fontaine / April Lurie.—1st ed.

p. cm.

Summary: Fifteen-year-old Dylan’s friend Angie is making a film about him while he is busy trying to keep his older brother from getting caught with drugs, to deal with his mother having left the family, and to figure out how to get Angie to think of him as more than just a friend.

[1. Family problems—Fiction. 2. Coming of Age—Fiction. 3. Bands (Music)—Fiction. 4. Marijuana—Fiction. 5. Interpersonal relations—Fiction. 6. New York (N.Y.)—Fiction.]

I. Title.

PZ7.L97916Lat 2008                            [Fic]—dc22                            2007032313

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