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  CONTENTS

  Title Page

  Copyright Notice

  Dedication

  Epigraphs

  Preface

  Fire

  The Follower

  Trophy Moment

  Depth Charge

  White Fire

  Incoming Fire

  Fire Away

  Heat-Treated

  Ring of Fire

  Flaming Wallet

  Words of Fire

  Faith in Flames

  House on Fire

  Afterword

  About the Author

  Also by Jack Gantos

  Copyright

  Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers

  175 Fifth Avenue, New York 10010

  Text copyright © 2015 Jack Gantos

  All rights reserved

  First hardcover edition, 2015

  eBook edition, September 2015

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  The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

  Gantos, Jack.

  The trouble in me / Jack Gantos. — First edition.

  pages cm

  Summary: “Fourteen-year-old Jack falls under the spell of a delinquent Florida neighbor and gets way more trouble than he bargained for”—Provided by publisher.

  ISBN 978-0-374-37995-7 (hardback)

  ISBN 978-0-374-30345-7 (e-book)

  [1. Behavior—Fiction. 2. Juvenile delinquency—Fiction. 3. Friendship—Fiction. 4. Moving, Household—Fiction. 5. Florida—Fiction. 6. Humorous stories.] I. Title.

  PZ7.G15334Tr 2015

  [Fic]—dc23

  2015013115

  eISBN 9780374303457