PUB DATE: 10/2015 AN ADVANCE READING COPY x NOT FOR SALE PUB DATE: 10/2015 “Wherever you go, I’ll go too.” “Do you promise?” she asked. Je “I promise,” I said. “We’ll never be apart.” They say blood is thicker than water. But what if the blood is twisted and dangerous? Locked in a mental facility. Accused of a crime you didn’t commit. And the one person you trust may be lying. Welcome to Alice’s life. • Emiko JEan is an elementary school math teacher, whose work with children in foster care inspired We’ll Never Be Apart. She lives with her husband in Seattle, Washington. ISBN 978-0-544-48200-5 MARKETING $17.99 • 5½ x 8¼ • 288 pages • Prepublication buzz campaign targeting Ages 12 and up • Hardcover key media, booksellers, librarians, edu cators, industry bigmouths, and teens Publication date: October 6, 2015 • National print and online advertising campaign Cover photograph © Getty Images • Book trailer Hand-lettering by Leah Palmer Preiss • National online and print media campaign • Extensive ARC mailings and giveaways • Online and social media promotions • Conference promotions • Promotion on singularreads.com Publicity contact: Hayley Gonnason 212-420-5881 • [email protected] UNCORRECTED PROOF Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers www.hmhco.com ADVANCE READING COPY IMPRINT: Books for Young Readers TITLE: We'll Never Be Apart AUTHOR: Jean, Emiko ILLUSTRATOR: ISBN: 9780544482005 E-ISBN: 9780544636507 PUBLICATION DATE: 10/06/2015 PRICE: $17.99 / Higher in Canada TRIM: 5-1/2" x 8-1/4" PAGE COUNT: 288 AGES: 12 and Up GRADES: 7 and Up These are uncorrected galleys. Please check all quotations and attributions against the bound copy of the book. We urge this for the sake of editorial accuracy as well as for your legal protection and ours. Reviewers may reprint cover illustrations to accompany reviews with the following credit: Courtesy of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company Please send a copy of your review to [email protected] OR Children’s Publicity | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt EMiko JEan Houghton Mifflin Harcourt boston new york Copyright © 2015 by Emiko Jean all rights reserved. For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 215 Park avenue South, new York, new York 10003. www.hmhco.com The text was set in XX. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Jean, Emiko. We'll never be apart / Emiko Jean. pages cm Summary: Haunted by memories of the fire that killed her boyfriend and twin sister, seven- teen-year-old alice Monroe is in a mental ward when, with support from fellow patient Chase, she begins to confront hidden truths in a journal, including that the only person she trusts may be telling her only half of the story. ISBN 978-0-544-48200-5 (hardback) [1. Mental illness — Fiction. 2. Psychiatric hospitals — Fiction. 3. Post-traumatic stress disorder — Fiction. 4. Death — Fiction. 5. Twins — Fiction. 6. Sisters — Fiction. 7. Love — Fiction. 8. Foster home care — Fiction.] i. Title. ii. Title: We will never be apart. PZ7.1.J43We 2015 [Fic] — dc23 2014046785 Manufactured in the United States of america TK 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 45XXXXXXXX [author dedication Tk]