The Selection (Selection - Trilogy)

rocking.
    Erica Sussman: You are so dang cool. For realzies. It’s kind of amazing how well you get America and how fun you are to work with. I adore you and your purple pen. Thank you for never making this feel like work.
    Tyler, you sassy girl, I feel your energy in everything. Thanks for all your work.
    Dear Everyone at HarperTeen: Umm, THANK YOU! You were a dream I didn’t dare speak aloud, and I’m honored to be one of your authors and appreciate all of your work for me. From cover art to marketing to just the way you communicate with me, everything has been better than I could have ever hoped for. Thank you. Truly.
    Jeannette, Catherine, Kati, Ciara, Christina, the ladies at Guy’s daycare, and anyone I might have missed: Thank you for watching Guyden at various times so I could work. It meant so much to me to know I wasn’t alone in this.
    And, if you made it all the way through this, thanks again to you! Some of you have been with me from the first time I sat in front of a camera and said “Hello Interwebs.” Some of you read The Siren or found me on Twitter. Some of you just saw the pretty girl on the cover of the book and decided to pick it up. However and whenever you found me, thank you for reading my book. I hope it made you all kinds of happy.

CREDITS
     
    COVER ART © 2012 BY GUSTAVO MARX/MERGELEFT REPS, INC.
    COVER DESIGN BY SARAH HOY

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    The Selection
    Copyright © 2012 by Kiera Cass
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    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
    Cass, Kiera.
    The Selection / by Kiera Cass.—1st ed.
    p.     cm.
    Summary: “Sixteen-year-old America Singer is living in the caste-divided nation of Illéa, which formed after the war that destroyed the United States. America is chosen to compete in the Selection—a contest to see which girl can win the heart of Illéa’s prince—but all she really wants is a chance for a future with her secret love, Aspen, who is a caste below her”—Provided by publisher.
    ISBN 978-0-06-205993-2 (trade bdg.)
    ISBN 978-0-06-220313-7 (int’l ed.)
    EPub Edition © APRIL 2012 ISBN 9780062059956
    [1. Marriage—Fiction. 2. Contests—Fiction. 3. Social classes—Fiction. 4. Princes—Fiction. 5. Love—Fiction. 6. Revolutionaries—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.C2685133Sel 2012
2011042113
[Fic]—dc23
CIP
AC
     
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