Your feedback and encouragement was invaluable and the book is better for it. Many heartfelt thanks to all the other early readers of The Unwanteds: Diane Blake Harper, Andy Marshall, Erica Reynolds, Kate Reynolds, Greg Bouman, Tricia Kiepert, Joanne Levy, Lynn Sinclair, Richard Lewis, and Cathy Sproul. Great thanks also to my dear husband, Matt, fantasy expert extraordinaire, and daughter, Kennedy, one of the earliest and most important readers-she knows why. You’ll find my token of thanks in your college fund, kid.

There would be no scatterclips and no “to the death!” without my creative son, Kilian, who was there when the idea for The Unwanteds came to life. Summary: In a society that purges thirteen-year-olds who are creative, identical twins Aaron and Alex are separated, one to attend University and the other, supposedly Eliminated, finds himself in a wondrous place where youths hone their abilities and learn magic.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Manufactured in the United States of America 0711 FFG The text of this book was set in Truesdell Regular.

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