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I try to grab a seat back but lose my balance and topple into the seat Alyssa’s blocking with her leg. I gulp hard, and the bus lurches forward. My dad keeps telling me to stand up to all of Zac’s defenders, but it’s the entire bus-the entire school-versus me. It’s a show of loyalty to someone who doesn’t deserve it, a challenge to see how far I’ll go. I meet Alyssa’s eyes, silently beg her for sympathy-even a little pity. A couple of weeks ago during a school newspaper staff meeting, Alyssa vowed her support, and today I’m pond scum. I approach slowly, hoping nobody can see my knees knocking. Alyssa Martin, a girl I’ve known since first grade, smirks and stretches her leg across the empty seat next to hers. I step onto the bus to school, wearing my armor and pretending nothing’s wrong, nothing happened, nothing changed when it’s pretty obvious nothing will ever be the same again. It’s been thirty-two of them since the party in the woods that started the battle I fight every day. Chapter 1 Grace No Monday in history has ever sucked more than this one.

Contents Front Cover Title Page Copyright Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Chapter 29 Author’s Note Some Boys Discussion Guide Acknowledgments About the Author An Excerpt from Send Back Cover To Kelly Breakey, with my eternal gratitude for encouraging the first because without that, there couldn’t have been a second and a third. Box 4410, Naperville, Illinois 60567-4410 (630) 961-3900 Fax: (630) 961-2168 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data is on file with the publisher. Published by Sourcebooks Fire, an imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc.

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