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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Neri, Greg.

Knockout Games / by G. Neri.
     pages cm

Summary: As a group of urban teenagers in a gang called the TKO Club makes random attacks on bystanders, Erica, who is dating one of the gang’s members, wrestles with her dark side and “good kid” identity.

ISBN 978–1–4677–3269–7 (trade hard cover : alk. paper)

ISBN 978–1–4677–4627–4 (eBook)

[1. Violence—Fiction.  2. Gangs—Fiction.]  I. Title.
PZ7.N4377478Kn 2014
[Fic]—dc23

2013036855

Manufactured in the United States of America
1 – BP – 7/15/14
eISBN: 978-1-46774-627-4 (pdf)
eISBN: 978-1-4677-6594-7 (ePub)
eISBN: 978-1-46776-592-3 (mobi)