Game Changer (29 page)

ALSO BY MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX

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Leaving Fishers

Don’t You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey

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HE
M
ISSING SERIES

Found

Sent

Sabotaged

Torn

Caught

T
HE
S
HADOW
C
HILDREN SERIES

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Among the Impostors

Among the Betrayed

Among the Barons

Among the Brave

Among the Enemy

Among the Free

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Say What?

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2012 by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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The text for this book is set in Centennial.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Haddix, Margaret Peterson.

Game changer / Margaret Peterson Haddix.—1st ed.

p. cm.

Summary: While playing in the championship softball game, star pitcher KT Sutton blacks out and awakes to a changed world where the roles of academics and sports at her middle school have flipped, making talented athletes, such as KT, outcasts and brainy nerds popular.

ISBN 978-0-689-87380-5 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-1-4424-5389-0 (eBook)

[1. Middle schools—Fiction. 2. Schools—Fiction. 3. Space and time—Fiction. 4. Individuality—Fiction. 5. Sports—Fiction.]  I. Title.

PZ7.H1164Gam 2012

[Fic] —dc23

2011034707