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  CONTENTS

  Title Page

  Copyright Notice

  Dedication

  Epigraph

  1   Wake Up, World!

  2   Don Juan Crustaceo

  3   VaGeorgia

  4   Checking It Out

  5   Who Can Tell?

  6   The Utterance of Cosmic Reality

  7   Believing

  8   Wolfball

  9   Exquisitely Vulnerable

  10   If You’re Going to San Francisco

  11   People Who Need People

  12   Youca Weave Mow

  13   Dr. Thatcher’s Stick

  14   Small Talk(ing)

  15   Most Likely to Be an Alien

  16   Pinky and Wizzle

  17   Just a Day

  18   Finding Finian

  19   What to Expect

  20   And So It Begins

  21   Ik Beloof

  22   Wading

  Thank You

  About the Author

  Copyright

  Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers

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  Text copyright © 2017 by Abby Sher

  All rights reserved

  First hardcover edition, 2017

  eBook edition, July 2017

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  The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

  Names: Sher, Abby, author.

  Title: All the ways the world can end / Abby Sher.

  Description: First edition. | New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2017. | Summary: Lenny, sixteen, struggles to cope with her father’s cancer, her best friend moving across the country, and more but in a sea of uncertainty, dreams of romance may become her anchor. | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

  Identifiers: LCCN 2016038107 (print) | LCCN 2017017716 (ebook) | ISBN 9780374304270 (ebook) | ISBN 9780374304256 (hardback)

  Subjects: | CYAC: Cancer—Fiction. | Medical care—Fiction. | Best friends—Fiction. | Friendship—Fiction. | Family life—Fiction. | Anxiety—Fiction. | BISAC: JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Parents. | JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Adolescence. | JUVENILE FICTION / Health & Daily Living / Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries.

  Classification: LCC PZ7.S54418 (ebook) | LCC PZ7.S54418 All 2017 (print) | DDC [Fic]—dc23

  LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016038107

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