Copyright © 2011 by Danette Haworth
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First published in the United States of America in June 2011
by Walker Publishing Company, Inc., a division of Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc.
E-book edition published in June 2011
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Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:
Haworth, Danette.
Me & Jack / Danette Haworth.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-8027-9453-6 (hardcover)
Summary: During the Vietnam War, when twelve-year-old Josh and his Air Force recruiter father move to a small town in the mountains of Pennsylvania and get a dog from the local shelter, Josh is forced to stop hanging back and takes on the unfriendly town residents, a mountain, and the meanest boy in school.
[1. Dogs—Fiction. 2. Bullies—Fiction. 3. Country life—Pennsylvania—Fiction. 4. Schools—Fiction. 5. Pennsylvania—History—20th century—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.H31365Me 2011    [Fic]—dc22    2010034338

ISBN 978-0-8027-2320-8 (e-book)