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For Jinny, for everything–AD
To Remi–MM

Clarion Books
a Houghton Mifflin Company imprint
215 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10003
Text copyright © 2005 by Alan Durant
Illustrations copyright © 2005 by Mei Matsuoka
First published in Great Britain in 2005 by Andersen Press Ltd.
First American edition, 2006.

The text was set in 19-point BrandoSlab. Text design by David Mackintosh.
The illustrations were executed in colored pencil, acrylics, and cut paper.

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Printed in Singapore.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Durant, Alan, 1958-
Burger boy / by Alan Durant; illustrated by Mei Matsuoka. p. cm.
Summary: Benny hates vegetables and eats nothing but hamburgers, until the day his mother's
prediction proves true and he turns into a walking, talking—and running—burger.
ISBN 0-618-71466-9
[1. Food habits—Fiction. 2. Hamburgers—Fiction. 3. Humorous stories ] 1. Matsuoka, Mei, ill. 11. Title.
PZ7.D9317Bur 2006
[E]—dc22 2005025363
ISBN-13: 978-0-618-71466-7 ISBN-10: 0-618-71466-9
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