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—and a special thank-you to those of you who were indulgent enough to read early drafts of this manuscript, and patient enough to tell me which title you liked best (over and over again!). Your advice helped shape this story into the book it finally became. Thank you to Tina Dubois Wexler, Joanne Brownstein, Rachel Feld (mentor, cheerleader, friend), Jessica DePaul, Ruth Homberg, John Adamo. Thanks also to Roya, Arielle, Noreen, Jen, Mindy, Ranse, Phil. Thanks to the entire Gravitt family: Janie, Brian, Laura, and John.

Much love, gratitude, and admiration to my father, Joel Sheinmel; my mother, Elaine Sheinmel; my sister, Courtney Sheinmel; and my grandmothers, Diane Buda and Doris Sheinmel.

And to my best friend and my most beloved, JP Gravitt: Every day when I wake up and you are there, it is a good day.

My little dog—a heartbeat at my feet.

—Edith Wharton

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Alyssa Sheinmel was born in Stanford, California. She is a graduate of New York City’s Spence School and Barnard College.

Alyssa lives in New York City and works in children’s book publishing. The Beautiful Between is her first novel.

THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2010 by Alyssa B. Sheinmel

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Sheinmel, Alyssa B.

The beautiful between / by Alyssa B. Sheinmel. — 1st ed

p. cm.

Summary: Connelly Sternin feels like Rapunzel, locked away in her Upper East

Side high-rise apartment studying for the SAT exams, until she develops an unlikely

friendship with her high school’s Prince Charming and begins to question some of the

things that have always defined her life.

eISBN: 978-0-375-89620-0

[1. Friendship—Fiction. 2. Fairy tales—Fiction. 3. New York (N.Y.)—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.S54123Be 2010

[Fic]—dc22

2009022772

Random House Children’s Books supports the First Amendment and celebrates the right to read.

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Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Acknowledgments

About the Author

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