This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2009 by Daniel Kraus

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Delacorte Press,
an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

Delacorte Press is a registered trademark and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.

Visit us on the Web! www.randomhouse.com/teens Educators and librarians, for a variety of teaching tools, visit us at
www.randomhouse.com/teachers

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kraus, Daniel.
The monster variations / by Daniel Kraus.
p. cm.
Summary: On his way to State University, nineteen-year-old James runs
into a former friend and is immersed in memories from the year they were
twelve and learned that monsters exist in the world—and within themselves.
eISBN: 978-0-375-89264-6
[1. Coming of age—Fiction.
2. Best friends—Fiction. 3. Friendship—Fiction. 4. Family problems—
Fiction. 5. Amputees—Fiction. 6. People with disabilities—Fiction.
7. Fear—Fiction. 8. Death—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.K8672Mon 2009
[Fic]—dc22 2008023967

Random House Children’s Books supports the First Amendment and celebrates the right to read.

v3.0