Rotten (9780545495899)

  I reach out and unfasten it.

  “Who says it’s for you?”

  Michael Northrop’s first novel, Gentlemen, earned him a Publishers Weekly Flying Start citation for a notable debut, and his second, Trapped, was named an ALA/YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, an ALA/YALSA Readers’ Choice List selection, and an Indie Next List selection. His recent middle-grade novel, Plunked, was selected for the New York Public Library’s 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing. Michael has also written short fiction for Weird Tales, the Notre Dame Review, and McSweeney’s. An editor at Sports Illustrated Kids for many years, he now writes full-time from his home in New York City. You can visit him online at www.michaelnorthrop.net.

  Copyright © 2013 by Michael Northrop

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Northrop, Michael.

  Rotten / Michael Northrop. — 1st ed.

  p. cm.

  Summary: When troubled sixteen-year-old Jimmer “JD” Dobbs returns from a mysterious summer “upstate” he finds that his mother has adopted an abused Rottweiler that JD names Johnny Rotten — but soon his tenuous relationship with the dog is threatened.

  1. Rottweiler dog — Juvenile fiction. 2. Dogs — Behavior — Juvenile fiction. 3. Juvenile delinquents — Juvenile fiction. 4. Friendship — Juvenile fiction. [1. Rottweiler dog — Fiction. 2. Dogs — Fiction. 3. Juvenile delinquents — Fiction. 4. Friendship — Fiction.] I. Title.

  PZ7.N8185Rot 2013

  813.6 — dc23

  2012035038

  ISBN 978-0-545-49587-5

  First edition, April 2013

  Cover art and design © 2013 by Phil Falco

  e-ISBN 978-0-545-49589-9

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