First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2017
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A Tragic Kind of Wonderful
Text © Eric Lindstrom, 2017
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Source ISBN: 9780008147471
Ebook Edition © 2016 ISBN: 9780008147488
Version: 2016-11-09
To Mom and Dad, for all the reasons
Contents
My big brother, Nolan, used to say everyone has a superpower. Not a skill you learned, but something you were born with. And it’s not always cool. Some people get perfect pitch or good intuition, while others get something useless like being able to go a long time without blinking. But if you don’t judge, everyone has at least one thing they’re