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First published by Egmont USA, 2010
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Copyright © David Patneaude, 2010
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Patneaude, David.
Epitaph Road / David Patneaude
p. cm.
Summary: In 2097, men are a small and controlled minority in a utopian world ruled by women, and fourteen-year-old Kellen must fight to save his father from an outbreak of the virus that killed ninety-seven percent of the male population thirty years earlier.
ISBN 978-1-60684-055-9 (hardcover) — ISBN 978-1-60684-070-2
(reinforced library binding)
[1. Sex role — Fiction. 2. Virus diseases — Fiction. 3. Fathers and sons — Fiction. 4. Science fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.P2734Ep 2010
[Fic] — dc22
2009025118
Book design by JDRIFT DESIGN
Printed in the United States of America
CPSIA tracking label information:
Random House Production • 1745 Broadway • New York, NY 10019
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