The Knife That Killed Me (21 page)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Anthony McGowan was born in Manchester and brought up in Leeds; he lives in London. His previous novels for teenagers are
Hellbent
and
Jack Tumor
.

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.

Copyright © 2008 by Anthony McGowan

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
Originally published in paperback in Great Britain by Definitions, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of the Random House Group, Ltd., London, in 2008.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
McGowan, Anthony.
The knife that killed me / Anthony McGowan.—1st. American ed.
p. cm.
Summary: Paul Varderman, a secondary student in an English Catholic School, is a loner
until, just as he is becoming friends with “the freaks,” the school bully encourages Paul to
join his gang and gives him a knife to carry as an incentive.
eISBN: 978-0-375-89392-6
[1. Gangs—Fiction. 2. Bullies—Fiction. 3. Catholic schools—Fiction. 4. Schools—
Fiction. 5. Friendship—Fiction. 6. Murder—Fiction. 7. England—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.M16912Kni 2010
[Fic]—dc22            
2009011662

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