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First published in the United States of America by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2017

Copyright © 2017 by Celia C. Perez

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Ebook ISBN: 9780425290415

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Names: Pérez, Celia C., 1972– author.

Title: The first rule of punk / by Celia C. Pérez.

Description: New York : Viking, [2017] | Summary: Twelve-year-old María Luisa O’Neill-Morales (who really prefers to be called Malú) reluctantly moves with her Mexican-American mother to Chicago and starts seventh grade with a bang—violating the dress code with her punk rock aesthetic and spurning the middle school’s most popular girl in favor of starting a band with a group of like-minded weirdos.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017010474 | ISBN 9780425290408 (hardback)

Subjects: | CYAC: Individuality—Fiction. | Friendship—Fiction. | Mexican Americans—Fiction. | Punk rock music—Fiction. | Bands (Music)—Fiction.

| Middle schools—Fiction. | Schools—Fiction. | Chicago (Ill.)—Fiction.

| BISAC: JUVENILE FICTION/ People & Places/ United States/ Hispanic &

Latino. | JUVENILE FICTION/ Performing Arts/ Music. | JUVENILE FICTION/ Social Issues / Friendship. Classification: LCC PZ7.1.P44747 Fi 2017 | DDC [Fic]—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017010474