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The Project by Courtney Summers

The Project

by Courtney Summers
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  • Feb 2, 2021, 352 pages
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  • Nov 2023, 368 pages
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The boy, trembling, lifts his head to be sure.

I turn away, my heart pounding, and force myself back through all the bodies until I'm free of the immediate crowd, only to be trapped by another greater swell of onlookers.

One of them screams, "Don't do it!" But it's already done.

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Excerpted from The Project by Courtney Summers. Copyright © 2021 by Courtney Summers. Excerpted by permission of Wednesday Books. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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