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EVERWILD

Also by Neal Shusterman

Novels
The Dark Side of Nowhere
Dissidents
Downsiders
The Eyes of Kid Midas
Full Tilt
The Schwa Was Here
The Shadow Club
The Shadow Club Rising
Speeding Bullet
Unwind
What Daddy Did

The Skinjacker Trilogyscenter
Everlost

The Dark Fusion Series
Dreadlocks
Red Rider’s Hood
Duckling Ugly

Story Collections
Darkness Creeping
Kid Heroes
MindQuakes
MindStorms

Visit the author at storyman.com and
MySpace.com/Neal Shusterman

EVERWILD

BOOK 2 OF THE SKINJACKER TRILOGY

Neal Shusterman

Dedication

For Christine

Acknowledgments

I’d like to thank my editors, David Gale and Navah Wolfe, as well as Justin Chanda, Paul Crichton, Michelle Fadlalla, and everyone at Simon & Schuster for being so supportive, not just of Everwild, but of all my work. Thanks to Brandi Lomeli for research into crazy things, and for keeping my life organized. I’d also like to thank my parents for their constant love and support, as well as my “big sis,” Patricia McFall, and a special thanks to my kids, Brendan, Jarrod, Joelle, and Erin for their love, inspiration, and valuable critiques throughout the writing process. An imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10020 This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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An imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division

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

Copyright © 2009 by Neal Shusterman

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Book design by Chloë Foglia

The text for this book is set in Cochin.

Manufactured in the United States of America

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Shusterman, Neal.

Everwild/Neal Shusterman.—1st ed.

p. cm.—(Skinjacker trilogy ; bk. 2)

Summary: Nick, known as the dreaded “Chocolate Ogre,” is trying to find all the children in Everlost and release them from the limbo they are in, while Mikey and Allie have joined a band of skinjackers and are putting themselves in danger by visiting the world of the living.

ISBN 978-1-4169-5863-5

ISBN 978-1-4169-9738-2 (eBook)

[1. Future life—Fiction. 2. Dead—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.S55987Ew 2009

[Fic]—dc22

2008051348

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