Better Off Friends

Copyright © 2014 by Elizabeth Eulberg

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Eulberg, Elizabeth, author.

Better off friends / Elizabeth Eulberg. — First edition.

pages cm

Summary: Macallan and Levi are best friends from the first day they meet in seventh grade, but over the years their close friendship keeps interfering with their dating life because everyone else regards them as a couple.

ISBN 978-0-545-55145-8 (jacketed hardcover) 1. Best friends — Juvenile fiction. 2. Friendship — Juvenile fiction. 3. Teenagers — Juvenile fiction. 4. Dating (Social customs) — Juvenile fiction. 5. Interpersonal relations — Juvenile fiction. [1. Best friends — Fiction. 2. Friendship — Fiction. 3. Dating (Social customs) — Fiction. 4. Interpersonal relations — Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.E8685Bet 2014

813.6 — dc23

2013019024

First edition, March 2014

Cover image © 2014 by Michael Frost

Cover design by Elizabeth B. Parisi

e-ISBN 978-0-545-55146-5

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