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Authors: Andrew Clements

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Andrew Clements
is the award-winning author of picture books, chapter books, and five best-selling books for middle-graders,
Frindle, The Landry News, The Janitor's Boy, The School Story,
and
The Jacket
.
Frindle
has won sixteen state book awards, as well as the Christopher Medal. Mr. Clements taught in the public schools near Chicago for seven years before moving east to begin a career in publishing. Now a full-time writer, he lives in central Massachusetts with his wife and their four children.

Also by ANDREW CLEMENTS

from Simon & Schuster

Novels

The Jacket

The School Story

The Janitor's Boy

The Landry News

Frindle

Illustrated Books

Big Al and Shrimpy

Pets to the Rescue: Tara and Tiree, Fearless Friends

Pets to the Rescue: Dolores and the Big Fire

Pets to the Rescue: Brave Norman

Pets to the Rescue: Ringo Saves the Day!

Jake Drake, Class Clown

Jake Drake, Teacher's Pet

Jake Drake, Know-It-All

Jake Drake, Bully Buster

Big Al

This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

First Aladdin Paperbacks edition April 2004

Copyright © 2002 by Andrew Clements

An imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division

1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10020

www.SimonandSchuster.com

All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.

Also available in a Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers hardcover edition.

Book design by Ann Sullivan

The text for this book is set in Revival.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Clements, Andrew.

A week in the woods / Andrew Clements.— 1st ed.

p. cm.

Summary: The fifth grade's annual camping trip in the woods tests Mark's survival skills and his ability to relate to a teacher who seems out to get him.

[1. Survival—Fiction. 2. Camping—Fiction. 3. Teacher-student relationships—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.C59118 We 2002

[Fic]—dc21

2002003626

ISBN 978-0-689-82596-5 (hc.)

ISBN 978-0-689-85802-4 (Aladdin pbk.)

ISBN 978-0-6898-5974-8 (ebook)

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