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Justina Chen is an award-winning novelist for young adults whose most recent book, Return to Me, was called an “uplifting story” by Publishers Weekly. North of Beautiful was named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus and Barnes & Noble. Her other novels include Girl Overboard (a Junior Library Guild premiere selections) and Nothing but the Truth (and a few white lies), which won the Asian Pacific American Award for Literature. Additionally, she co-founded readergirlz, a cutting-edge literacy and social media project for teens, which won the National Book Award for Innovations in Reading.

When she isn’t writing for teens, Justina is a communications strategist for executives and was the speechwriter and executive communications manager for
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Average rating: 3.90 · 18,737 ratings · 1,910 reviews · 6 distinct works · Similar authors
North of Beautiful
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 16,423 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions
Girl Overboard
3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 1,162 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions
Nothing But the Truth [and ...
3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 784 ratings — published 2006 — 5 editions
Return to Me
3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 254 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions
The Patch
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions
What Now: Survival Guide fo...
3.2 of 5 stars 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2013
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“Getting lost is just another way of saying 'going exploring.”
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“Beauty--real everlasting beauty--lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It lives in what we do for ourselves and for others.”
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“To dream is to starve doubt, feed hope.”
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