You Look Different in Real Life

“Never.”
    “There’s a lot of love out there,” Lance says proudly, “and you deserve all of it.”
    I hear the voice of the moderator now.
    “And finally, please welcome the three codirectorsof Five at Sixteen : Lance Rodgers, Leslie Rodgers, and Justine Connolly!”
    Leslie nudges me forward through the curtain.
    A blur of hands clapping, their flutter like wings in a flock. Warm faces with bright eyes. Unfamiliar, but affectionate.
    I step fully onto the stage now, and let them all see me.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    W hoa. Now that I sit back here, past the book’s final pages, I can feel the rush of gratitude. This space won’t fit individual mentions of everyone who bolstered me creatively and emotionally on my journey with this novel, but I’ll start with a sweeping shout-out to my family, friends, author compadres, and heck, even my cats, who all sure know how to make a writer girl feel loved.
    Thank you as always to my agent, the whip-smart, bunny-loving Jamie Weiss Chilton. I’m blessed with an amazing editor, Rosemary Brosnan, who empowered meto accomplish everything I set out to do with this manuscript . . . and then some.
    Heartfelt thanks to Andrew Harwell, Andrea Martin, Olivia deLeon, and Barbara Lalicki, along with the rest of the wonderful team at HarperCollins—a publishing house I’m thrilled to call home. Designer Laura DiSiena and art director Cara Petrus created this dazzling cover, and thus I think they pretty much rule.
    I’m forever indebted to Bari Pearlman for letting me tap in to her expertise as a documentary filmmaker, and to Nora Snyder for sharing her gorgeously personal insights on teens with autism. Thank you also to the folks on Facebook who weighed in on such important story points as dorm decoration, drunken pet-naming, and barn animals.
    Ten-gallon plastic tubs of Thankful to my readers—every one of you who has written to me or shown up at an event or recommended my work, or simply connected to it personally, silently, and held it close. To all the booksellers, librarians, and book bloggers who have so enthusiastically supported what I do: I can’t fully express my appreciation without a lot of colored markers and heart stickers, and maybe not even then.
    Finally, I send infinite thanks and love, love, love to Bill, Sadie, and Clea. You make so many things possible.

CREDITS
    Cover photo of girl © 2013 by Getty Images/Ray Kachatorian
    Cover texture © 2013 by Getty Images/Andrew Paterson
    Cover design by Cara E. Petrus

COPYRIGHT
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    You Look Different in Real Life
    Copyright © 2013 by Jennifer Castle
    All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America.
    No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information address HarperCollins Children’s Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers, 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022.
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    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Castle, Jennifer.
    You look different in real life / Jennifer Castle.—First edition.
pages   cm
    Summary: “Five teens starring in a documentary film series about their ordinary lives must grapple with questions of change and identity under the scrutiny of the camera.”—Provided by publisher.
    ISBN 978-0-06-198581-2
    [1. Documentary films—Production and direction—Fiction. 2. Interpersonal relations—Fiction. 3. Celebrities—Fiction. 4. Identity—Fiction. 5. Family life—New York (State)—Fiction. 6. New York (State)—Fiction.] I. Title.
    PZ7.C268732You 2013
    2012051743
    [Fic]—dc23
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    EPub Edition © APRIL 2013 ISBN: 9780062209771

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