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  39. Sunny Kruschwitz and Kathy Alfeld, who introduced me to my first love: the French language.

  40. Bob Simpson, who inspired “Mr. Simpson.”

  41. Jade Corn and Cori Ashley, who are champions of children’s books.

  42. All the bookstores around the world who continue to put my books on the shelf.

  43. All the book bloggers who have featured my books on their wonderful sites.

  44. Viviane Cordeiro.

  45. Hilit Meir.

  46. Claire Kidman.

  47. Melissa Fairley.

  48. Tsui-lun Liu.

  49. Mark Stankevich.

  50. Jeff Levin.

  51. Steve Glodney.

  52. You. The reader of books. Thank you on behalf of all my characters (Jennifer, Maddy, Brooklyn, and now Lexi). It’s you who make them real. It’s you who give them life.

  ALSO BY JESSICA BRODY

  My Life Undecided

  The Karma Club

  Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers

  175 Fifth Avenue, New York 10010

  Copyright © 2012 by Jessica Brody

  All rights reserved

  First hardcover edition, 2012

  eBook edition, July 2012

  macteenbooks.com

  The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

  Brody, Jessica.

  52 reasons to hate my father / Jessica Brody. — 1st ed.

  p. cm.

  Summary: On her eighteenth birthday, spoiled party girl Lexington Larrabee learns that her days of making tabloid headlines may be at an end when her ever-absent father decides she must learn some values by working a different, low-wage job every week for a year or forfeit her multimillion-dollar trust fund.

  ISBN 978-0-374-32303-5 (hardcover)

  ISBN 978-1-4299-5523-2 (e-book)

  [1. Fathers and daughters—Fiction. 2. Conduct of life—Fiction. 3. Work—Fiction. 4. Wealth—Fiction. 5. Inheritance and succession—Fiction. 6. Social classes—Fiction. 7. Bel Air (Los Angeles, Calif.)—Fiction.] I. Title. II. Title: Fifty-two reasons to hate my father.

  PZ7.B786157Aaj 2012

  [Fic]—dc22

  2011012931

  eISBN 9781429955232