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First published in the United States of America in July 2020 by Bloomsbury YA
Text copyright © 2020 by Kalynn Bayron
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Bayron, Kalynn, author.
Title: Cinderella is dead / by Kalynn Bayron.
Description: New York : Bloomsbury Children’s Books, 2020.
Summary: Queer black girls team up to overthrow the patriarchy in the former kingdom of Cinderella.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019048162 (print) | LCCN 2019048163 (e-book)
ISBN 978-1-5476-0387-9 (hardcover) • ISBN 978-1-5476-0388-6 (e-book)
Subjects: CYAC: Fantasy. | Lesbians—Fiction. | Feminism—Fiction. | Sexism—Fiction. | Blacks—Fiction. | Characters in literature—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.1.B386 Cin 2020 (print) | LCC PZ7.1.B386 (e-book) | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019048162
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Table of Contents
Half Title
Dedication
Title Page
Contents
Epigraph
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Chapter Thirty
Chapter Thirty-One
Chapter Thirty-Two
Chapter Thirty-Three
Chapter Thirty-Four
Chapter Thirty-Five
Chapter Thirty-Six
Chapter Thirty-Seven
Chapter Thirty-Eight
Acknowledgments
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