When Mr. Dog Bites
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I would like to thank my friends and family.
Finally, I’d like to thank my great friend Norrie Malloy, who I knew was deeply proud of his mate’s writing career, even though he took to calling me Jessica Fletcher from Murder, She Wrote. Just sorry you couldn’t have held a copy in your hands. This book is dedicated to you.
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First published as When Mr Dog Bites in Great Britain in January 2014 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published in the United States of America in June 2014 by Bloomsbury Children’s Books
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Conaghan, Brian.
When Mr. Dog bites / Brian Conaghan.
pages cm
Summary: All seventeen-year-old Dylan Mint wants is to keep his Tourette’s in check
and live as a normal teen, but during a routine hospital visit he overhears that he is going
to die, and in an attempt to claim the life he has always wanted he makes a list of
“Cool Things to Do Before I Cack It” and sets out to have some fun.
ISBN 978-1-61963-346-9 (hardcover) • ISBN 978-1-61963-347-6 (e-book)
[1. Tourette syndrome—Fiction. 2. Terminally ill—Fiction. 3. Interpersonal relations—
Fiction. 4. Schools—Fiction. 5. Family life—England—Fiction. 6. England—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.C744Whe 2014 [Fic]—dc23 2013044567
ISBN 978-1-6196-3231-8 (e-book)