The Game
ALSO BY LINSEY MILLER
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Text copyright © 2020 by Linsey Miller
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Girl on the Run excerpt copyright © 2020 by Abigail Johnson.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Miller, Linsey, author.
Title: The game / Linsey Miller.
Description: First edition. | New York : Underlined, 2020. | Audience: Ages 12 and up. | Summary: “Every year the senior class at Lincoln High plays assassin. But this year, the game isn’t any fun—it’s real.”— Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020009763 (print) | LCCN 2020009764 (ebook) | ISBN 978-0-593-17978-9 (trade paperback) | ISBN 978-0-593-17979-6 (ebook)
Subjects: CYAC: Murder—Fiction. | Games—Fiction. | High schools—Fiction. | Schools—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.1.M582 Gam 2020 (print) | LCC PZ7.1.M582 (ebook) | DDC [Fic]—dc23
Ebook ISBN 9780593179796
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Contents
Cover
Also by Linsey Miller
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Acknowledgments
Excerpt from Girl on the Run
For my mother.
Thank you for introducing me to the mystery section of the library.
SUBJECT: The Game Begins
I am ready to kill or be killed. This email serves as the official notice that I, [NAME HERE], am entering this year’s round of Assassins. I understand that I must send this email before midnight Wednesday and that I will receive the rules, my team members’ names, and my target’s name Friday at 12:00 p.m.