Bigbigbig thanks …

To my wonderful team at Egmont—Andrea Cascardi, Jordan Hamessley, Michelle Bayuk, Margaret Coffee, Regina Griffin, Alison Weiss, and Bonnie Cutler.

To my amazing agent, Catherine Drayton, and InkWell Management (especially Lisa Vanterpool, Masie Cochran, and Nat Jacks).

To my friends, supporters, and early readers—Al Gore, Alexis Gallagher, Angela Grossman, Anne Nesbet, Barry Wolverton, Beth Alpert, Bruce Coville, Burton Ritchie, Caroline Lawrence, Caroline Thompson, Crystal Allen, Dan Evans, Daniel Handler, David Baltimore, Deborah Halverson, Elizabeth Law, Erika Zavaleta, Gordon Korman, Greg Ferguson, Irwin Jacobs, James Campbell, Jarrett Rutland, Jay Leibold, Jen Rofe, Joe Greco, Judith Morgan, Linda Lichter, Mary Baldwin, Max Faugno, Melissa Manlove, Nathan Bransford, Patrick Carman, Peter Lerangis, Rob Taboada, Steven Chu, Will Wister, and the Gurevich, Jain-Metzger, Nodelman, Olafsson, Rukin, Sawhney, Weiss, and Yuger families.

To fab artists Jan Gerardi, JP Coovert, and Michelle Gengaro. To my teachers and friends from CDS, Mt. Carmel, Harvard, SCBWI, Leela, and BATS Improv. To the Zeltser ladies—Asya, Aurora, Naomi, Sage, and Aunt Sarah! Most of all, to my wife, Fiona Dulbecco, and our parents—Tamara, Alex, Maureen, and Renato—for all your dedication and love.