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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Stone, Peter (Media marketing consultant), author.
Title: The perfect candidate / Peter Stone.
Description: First edition. | New York : Simon & Shuster Books for Young Readers, [2018] | Summary: When Cameron Carter goes straight from high school in small-town California to a summer internship with a powerful U.S. Congressman he admires, he soon learns that not everything in Washington, D.C. is as it appears.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017040211 | ISBN 9781534422179 (hardcover) | ISBN 9721534422193 (eBook)
Subjects: | CYAC: Internship programs—Fiction. | Interpersonal relations—Fiction. | Legislators—Fiction. | Political corruption—Fiction. | Washington (D.C.)—Fiction. Classification: LCC PZ7.1.S7548 Per 2018 | DDC [Fic]—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017040211