First Simon Pulse edition April 2002
Text copyright © 2000 by Todd Strasser
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Page 1: Copyright © 1999, USA TODAY. Reprinted with permission.
Page 7: From an article in The Christian Science Monitor, which ran on May 26, 1999, and is reproduced with permission. Copyright © 1999 by The Christian Science Publishing Society. All rights reserved.
Pages 9, 13, 14, 21, 38, 53, 58, 60, 83, 88, 91, 124, 131: Copyright © 1998/1999 by The New York Times Company. Reprinted by permission.
Pages 15, 26, 30, 95, 98: From Rolling Stone, “Humiliation and Revenge: The Story of Reb and VoDkA” by Peter Wilinson and Matt Hendrickson, and “Guns and Violence: An Editorial” by Jann S. Wenner, June 10, 1999; and “A Boy’s Life” by Randall Sullivan, September 17, 1998. Copyright ©1998/1999 by Straight Arrow Publishers Company, L.P. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission.
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Designed by Steve Scott
The text of this book was set in Electra.
CIP Data for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
ISBN-13: 978-0-689-84893-3
ISBN-10: 0-689-84893-5
ISBN-13: 978-1-4391-1521-3 (eBook)
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