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.

Text copyright © 2019 by Andrew Clements

Cover art and interior illustrations copyright © 2019 by Laura Park

Excerpt from The Losers Club copyright © 2017 by Andrew Clements

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Name: Clements, Andrew, author.

Title: The friendship war / Andrew Clements.

Description: First edition. | New York : Random House, [2019] | Summary: When Grace takes boxes of old buttons from a building her grandfather bought, she starts a fad at school that draws her closer to one friend, but further from another.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017034192 | ISBN 978-0-399-55759-0 (hardcover) | ISBN 978-0-399-55760-6 (hardcover library binding) | ISBN 978-0-399-55761-3 (ebook)

Subjects: | CYAC: Best friends—Fiction. | Friendship—Fiction. | Buttons—Collectors and collecting—Fiction. | Fads—Fiction. | Schools—Fiction.

Classification: LCC PZ7.C59118 Fp 2019 | DDC [Fic]—dc23

Ebook ISBN 9780399557613

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