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	Charbonneau, Joelle. VERIFY New York, NY : HarperTeen, [2019] IL YA ISBN 9780062803627
Click on the book to read Amazon reviews	Meri Beckley is trying very hard to move on from her mother's death. It is hard. Her father drinks himself to sleep every night and is just not there for her. All she has left is her mother's art. There is one painting that isn't finished and Meri wants to be able to finish it. But it is so different from what her mother usually painted. Actually, the last few paintings have been different. As Meri walks around the city, she starts seeing what her mother painted. And then it happens. A stranger hands her a piece of paper with the word "verify" written on it. Paper has been outlawed for years. And there is no such word as verify. Now Meri is on a quest to understand this word and to find a way to finish what her mother started.
	SUBJECTS:  Grief -- Fiction.                         Honesty -- Fiction.                         Government, Resistance to -- Fiction.                         High school students -- Fiction.                         Mothers -- Death -- Fiction.                         Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction.

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