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Authors: Judy Blume
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Going, Going, Gone! With the Pain and the Great One (9 page)
You don’t want me to tell them you’re a bad kitty, do you?
she asks.
A bad kitty? Me?
They’d never believe that!
They might not come back if they think you’re a bad kitty
, she says.
But she can’t scare me.
They always come back.
And when they do,
I’ll pretend I didn’t even know they were gone.
Judy Blume
spent her childhood in Elizabeth, New Jersey, making up stories inside her head. She has spent her adult years in many places, doing the same thing, only now she writes her stories down on paper. Her twenty-seven books have won many awards, including the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
Judy lives in Key West and New York City. You can visit her at
www.judyblume.com
.
James Stevenson
has written and illustrated more than a hundred books for children. In forty years at the
New Yorker
, he has published more than two thousand cartoons and covers, as well as numerous written pieces. His illustrated column “Lost and Found New York” frequently appears on the op-ed page of the
New York Times
.
Published by Delacorte Press
an imprint of Random House Children’s Books
a division of Random House, Inc.
New York
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Text copyright © 2008 by P&G Trust
Illustrations copyright © 2008 by James Stevenson
All rights reserved.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Blume, Judy.
Going, going, gone! with the Pain and the Great One / Judy Blume ;
illustrations by James Stevenson. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: Further adventures of first-grader Jake “the Pain” and his sister, third-grader Abigail “the Great One,” include a trip to the beach with Grandma, to a county fair with Aunt Diana, and to a mall with Dad.
eISBN: 978-0-307-75940-5
[1. Brothers and sisters—Fiction. 2. Schools—Fiction. 3. Family life—Fiction.]
I. Stevenson, James, ill. II. Title.
PZ7.B6265 Goi 2008
[Fic]—dc22
2008006634
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