This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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ALADDIN M!X

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First Aladdin M!X edition January 2017

Text copyright © 2017 by Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Cover illustration copyright © 2017 by Angela Li

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Jacket designed by Laura Lyn DiSiena

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The text of this book was set in Palatino.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Levy, Joanne, author.

Title: Crushing it / by Joanne Levy.

Description: Aladdin M!X edition. | New York : Aladdin M!X, 2016. | Summary: Middle school is bad enough for braces-wearing, manga-loving, uncoordinated Kat, but helping her two best friends get together will mean that Kat has no chance of winning Tyler’s affection for herself.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015042245 | ISBN 9781481464734 (pbk) | ISBN 9781481464741 (hc) | ISBN 9781481464758 (eBook)

Subjects: | CYAC: Middle schools—Fiction. | Schools—Fiction. | Best friends—Fiction. | Friendship—Fiction. | Cousins—Fiction. | Self-esteem—Fiction.

Classification: LCC PZ7.L58323 Cru 2016 | DDC [Fic]—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2015042245