If You’re Reading This

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Reedy, Trent, author.

If you’re reading this / Trent Reedy. — First edition.

pages cm

Summary: For a responsible sixteen-year-old, Michael Wilson has a lot of problems — his father was killed in Afghanistan in 2005, his overworked and overprotective mother will not talk about their situation, and does not want him playing football, and he has suddenly started to receive letters that his father wrote before his death.

ISBN 978-0-545-43342-6

1. Last letters before death — Juvenile fiction. 2. Families — Iowa — Juvenile fiction. 3. Mothers and sons — Juvenile fiction. 4. Soldiers — Family relationships — Juvenile fiction. 5. High schools — Juvenile fiction. 6. Iowa — Juvenile fiction. [1. Letters — Fiction. 2. Family life — Iowa — Fiction. 3. Mothers and sons — Fiction. 4. Soldiers — Fiction. 5. High schools — Fiction. 6. Schools — Fiction. 7. Iowa — Fiction.] I. Title. II. Title: If you are reading this.

PZ7.R25423If 2014

813.6 — dc23

2013045430

First edition, September 2014

CAN’T GET ENOUGH OF YOUR LOVE, BABE

Words and Music by BARRY WHITE

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Used by Permission of ALFRED MUSIC

Cover design by Christopher Stengel

e-ISBN 978-0-545-70049-8

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