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C
ONTENTS

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Epigraph

Dear Bill

It was Thursday night

It's true that

School's always been

Calvin's Alter Ego

The next morning

I was thinking

I got dressed

While we ate

We weren't making

You know how

It was getting darker

Susie and I both looked

We woke up early

We walked for a long time

It was half past four

I tried to be cheerful

When I woke up in the morning

Susie gave me

We walked

We weren't freezing

The snow had blown

First her hands

Susie was lying

Another vein of black water

That's the way

Susie made me go

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Also by Martine Leavitt

Copyright

 

Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers

175 Fifth Avenue, New York 10010

Text copyright © 2015 by Martine Leavitt

All rights reserved

First hardcover edition, 2015

eBook edition, November 2015

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

Leavitt, Martine, 1953– author.

    Calvin / Martine Leavitt. — First edition.

        pages cm

    Summary: Born on the day the last Calvin and Hobbes comic strip was published, seventeen-year-old Calvin, a schizophrenic, sees and has conversations with the tiger, Hobbes, and believes that if he can persuade the strip's creator, Bill Watterson, to do one more strip, he will make Calvin well.

    ISBN 978-0-374-38073-1 (hardback)

    [1.  Schizophrenia—Fiction.   2.  Mental illness—Fiction.   3.  High schools—Fiction.   4.  Schools—Fiction.   5.  Characters in lit erature—Fiction.]   I.  Title.

PZ7.B3217Cal 2015

[Fic]— dc23

2015002574

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