Copyright © 2000 by Ned Vizzini

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. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Free Spirit Publishing, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 2000. Subsequently published in paperback in the United States by Laurel-Leaf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 2002.

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