Also by Andrew Clements
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About Average
Benjamin Pratt & the Keepers of the School
We the Children
Fear Itself
The Whites of Their Eyes
Big Al
Big Al and Shrimpy
Dogku
Extra Credit
Frindle
The Handiest Things in the World
Jake Drake, Bully Buster
Jake Drake, Class Clown
Jake Drake, Know-It-All
Jake Drake, Teacher’s Pet
The Jacket
The Janitor’s Boy
The Landry News
The Last Holiday Concert
Lost and Found
Lunch Money
No Talking
The Report Card
Room One
The School Story
A Week in the Woods
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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Text copyright © 2011 by Andrew Clements
Illustrations copyright © 2011 by Mark Elliott
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Also available in an Atheneum Books for Young Readers hardcover edition
The text for this book is set in Bembo.
The illustrations for this book are rendered in pencil.
First Atheneum Books for Young Readers paperback edition February 2013
The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Clements, Andrew, 1949–
Troublemaker / Andrew Clements ; illustrated by Mark Elliott. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: When his older brother gets in serious trouble, sixth-grader Clay decides to change his own mischief-making ways, but he cannot seem to shake his reputation as a troublemaker.
ISBN 978-1-4169-4930-5 (hardcover)
[1. Behavior—Fiction. 2. Schools—Fiction. 3. Brothers—Fiction.] I. Elliott, Mark, 1967– ill. II. Title.
PZ7.C59118Tr 2011
[Fic]—dc22 2010045018
ISBN 978-1-4169-4932-9 (paperback)
ISBN 978-1-4424-6207-6 (eBook)
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