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The Girl with the Wrong Name

by Barnabas Miller

Ages: 14+

Published: 2015

Publisher: Soho Teen/Soho Press

ISBN: 978-1-61695-194-8

Keywords: New York, Memory

17-year-old Theo meets a young man with a murky past. She discovers the truth about him and herself as this unreliable narrator searches for answers in NYC.