The Wild Bunch

by Jan Gangsei

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  JAN GANGSEI is the author of Zero Day. She grew up in the hills of Vermont, where she began her careers as a journalist and a photographer. After stints in Key West, New York City, and Barbados, Jan finally settled with her family in northern Virginia, where she writes full-time.

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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.

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  First Aladdin MAX edition July 2017

  Text copyright © 2017 by Working Partners Limited

  Cover illustration copyright © 2017 by Chris Danger

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  Interior designed by Mike Rosamilia

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Names: Gangsei, Jan, author.

  Title: The wild bunch / by Jan Gangsei.

  Description: First Aladdin MAX edition. | New York : Aladdin MAX, 2017. |

  Summary: On a weekend camping trip with their fathers, Hector, Jack, and Paul form an unlikely friendship as they brave the wilderness in search of the mythical Beast of Bear Falls.

  Identifiers: LCCN 2016049812 (print) | LCCN 2017007812 (eBook) |

  ISBN 9781481468299 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781481468282 (pbk) |

  ISBN 9781481468305 (eBook)

  Subjects: | CYAC: Camping—Fiction. | Fathers and sons—Fiction. | Adventure and adventurers—Fiction. | Imaginary creatures—Fiction. | Humorous stories. | BISAC: JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / Survival Stories. | JUVENILE FICTION / Humorous Stories. | JUVENILE FICTION / Sports & Recreation / Camping & Outdoor Activities.

  Classification: LCC PZ7.1.G357 Wil 2017 (print) | LCC PZ7.1.G357 (eBook) |

  DDC [Fic]—dc23

  LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016049812