This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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This Simon Pulse paperback edition October 2011
Copyright © 2008 by Robin Wasserman
Previously published as Skinned.
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The text of this book was set in Edlund.
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:
Wasserman, Robin.
Skinned / Robin Wasserman.—1st Simon Pulse ed.
p. cm.
Summary: To save her from dying in a horrible accident, Lia’s wealthy parents transplant her brain into a mechanical body.
ISBN 978-1-4169-3634-3 (hc)
[1. Science fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.W25865Sk
[Fic]—dc22
2008015306
ISBN 978-1-4424-2038-0 (pbk)
ISBN 978-1-4424-3359-5 (eBook)