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  Text copyright © 2011 by Andrew Clements

  Illustrations copyright © 2011 by Mark Elliott

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  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

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  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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