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  The Most Me. That is all I want to be.

  Acknowledgments

  First, this book would not be without the guidance and brilliance (and incredible patience) of my editor, Wendy Loggia. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

  Big thanks to my agents, Alexis Hurley and Kim Witherspoon at Inkwell Management.

  The very kind owners of the Mitchell Ledge Farm took time out of their busy schedule to sit down and talk cows with me, and I appreciate it very much! Thank you, Mary and Andy.

  Oh, to have a trusted friend who is also an author! Thank you, Lee Nichols.

  And as always, a big thank-you to my adorable, amazing little guy, Max, a constant source of inspiration.

  MELISSA SENATE is the author of eight other novels, including her debut for teens, Theodora Twist, hailed by Teen People as a “hot summer read” and by the New York Post as “realistically raw, yet endearing.” A former editor of teen fiction in New York City, Melissa now lives on the coast of Maine, where The Mosts is set.

  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.

  Copyright © 2010 by Melissa Senate

  All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

  Delacorte Press is a registered trademark and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Senate, Melissa.

  The Mosts / Melissa Senate.

  p. cm.

  Summary: After a summer makeover, Madeline begins dating one of the most popular boys at her Maine high school, but when he moves to California, she fears for both her status and her relationship.

  eISBN: 978-0-375-89657-6

  [1. Popularity—Fiction. 2. Interpersonal relations—Fiction. 3. Dating (Social

  customs)—Fiction. 4. Identity—Fiction. 5. High schools—Fiction.

  6. Schools—Fiction. 7. Maine—Fiction.] I. Title.

  PZ7.S4666Mo 2010

  [Fic]—dc22

  2009026226

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