Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
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Text copyright © 2015 by Martine Leavitt
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First hardcover edition, 2015
eBook edition, November 2015
The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Leavitt, Martine, 1953– author.
Calvin / Martine Leavitt. — First edition.
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Summary: Born on the day the last Calvin and Hobbes comic strip was published, seventeen-year-old Calvin, a schizophrenic, sees and has conversations with the tiger, Hobbes, and believes that if he can persuade the strip’s creator, Bill Watterson, to do one more strip, he will make Calvin well.
ISBN 978-0-374-38073-1 (hardback)
[1. Schizophrenia—Fiction. 2. Mental illness—Fiction. 3. High schools—Fiction. 4. Schools—Fiction. 5. Characters in lit erature—Fiction.] I. Title.
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