Boy Nobody (28 page)
Authors: Allen Zadoff
Tags: #Juvenile Fiction / Boys & Men, Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure - General, Juvenile Fiction / Law & Crime, Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues - Violence
I move past clusters of grieving students, past teachers trying to comfort them, past empty classrooms and full halls. This is not my school anymore. I am no longer one of them.
Maybe I never was.
Eventually people stop looking at me, stop meeting my eye.
There is nothing to meet.
There is nobody here.
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Boy Nobody
may be a solo act, but I most certainly am not.
I’d like to thank Rich Tackenberg, tech blogger and friend, whose analysis of technology and social media trends was enormously helpful to me in the preparation of this book.
Thanks to Kate Sullivan, my incredible editor, who found
Boy Nobody
, championed it, and gave the series a home.
Special thanks to publisher Megan Tingley, who invited me into the LBYR family. And what a family it is—Andrew Smith, Melanie Chang, Eileen Lawrence, Victoria Stapleton, and Amy Habayeb, to name only a few. I look forward to making the journey with all of you.
Thanks to Sally Willcox at CAA for her tireless efforts to bring
Boy Nobody
to the big screen.
Finally I’d like to thank my agent, Stuart Krichevsky, and the SK team—Shana Cohen and Ross Harris. Stuart has guided me, grown with me, and believed in me over several years, several projects, and several bumps in the road. That’s my idea of a great agent.
Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
Copyright © 2013 by Allen Zadoff
Cover design by Tom Sanderson
Image of boy © Arcangel Images; images of woods and city © the-parish.com
Cover © 2013 Hachette Book Group, Inc.
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First ebook edition: June 2013
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ISBN: 978-0-316-24389-6
