Homeroom Headhunters (22 page)

Thanks to Wes Nichols, Desiree Burch, Margaret Miller, Hugo Perez, Jeffrey Dinsmore, Kyle Jarrow, Chris Steib, Lauren Cerand, Barbara Clark, Erik German, and Solana Pyne.

This book couldn't have happened without my hero Eddie Gamarra. To Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and everyone at The Gotham Group, thank you for your faith and support.

Endless thanks to Kevin Lewis. You are the punk rock Gordon Lish. Best. Editor.
Ever
. To Ricardo Mejias and the Hyperion gang, thank you for taking a chance on me.

Infinite inspiration and quotes come from Napoleon Bonaparte,
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding,
White Fang
by Jack London,
The Call of the Wild
by Jack London,
The Outsiders
by S. E. Hinton,
Watership Down
by Richard Adams,
The Catcher
in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger, “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell,
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain,
The Art of War
by Sun Tzu,
All's Well that Ends Well
by William Shakespeare, “The Pit and the Pendulum” by Edgar Allan Poe,
Johnny
Tremain
by Esther Forbes,
The Red Badge of
Courage
by Stephen Crane, “The Female of the Species” by Rudyard Kipling, and
Peter Pan
by J. M. Barrie.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world
.…

—Napoleon