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- 1 2 3 Rumaan Alam, Worth the Trip. Los Angeles Review of Books , September 23, 2014.
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- ↑ "'I'll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip' Is on TIME's List of the 100 Best YA Books". Time. 2021-08-11. Retrieved 2023-09-14.
- ↑ "The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered Edited by Tom Cardamone". The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide , May 4, 2013.
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