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About the Author Credits Copyright About the Publisher I Am Number Four Pittacus Lore Contents Chapter One IN THE BEGINNING THERE WERE NINE OF US. We left… Chapter Two I STAND IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DRIVE AND STARE… Chapter Three WE PULL OFF FOR FOOD AND GAS AND NEW PHONES. Chapter Four ANOTHER NEW IDENTITY, ANOTHER NEW SCHOOL. I’ve lost track of… Chapter Five I CRAWL TO THE DOOR AND UNLOCK IT. IT SWINGS… Chapter Six I WALK INSIDE AND LIE ON THE BARE MATTRESS in… Chapter Seven I WAKE BEFORE THE ALARM. THE HOUSE IS COOL and… Chapter Eight HENRI IS PARKED EXACTLY WHERE HE SAID HE would be. Chapter Nine EVERY MUSCLE IN MY BODY IS FLEXED, EVERYTHING tense. Henri… Chapter Ten BERNIE KOSAR IS SCRATCHING AT MY BEDROOM door when I… Chapter Eleven IMAGES COME TO ME, AT RANDOM TIMES, USUALLY when I… Chapter Twelve HENRI AND I GO INTO TOWN ON SATURDAY FOR the… Chapter Thirteen KIDS RUNNING, SCREAMING, ON SLIDES AND jungle gyms. Every kid… Chapter Fourteen KEVIN STEPS FROM THE TREES, DRESSED AS A mummy. He’s… Chapter Fifteen THE FIRST SNOWFALL COMES TWO WEEKS LATER. A slight dusting,… Chapter Sixteen SAM IS AVOIDING ME. AT SCHOOL HE SEEMS TO disappear… Chapter Seventeen THE NEXT DAY I WAKE EARLIER THAN NORMAL, crawl out… Chapter Eighteen AFTER DEBATING IT FOR SEVERAL HOURS, Henri wakes up the… Chapter Nineteen WHILE I WAIT FOR SAM I WALK THROUGH THE house… Chapter Twenty WE DRIVE SOUTH UNTIL, NESTLED IN THE FOOTHILLS of the… Chapter Twenty-One EVERYTHING SLOWS. I SEE A SECOND PERSON at the top… Chapter Twenty-Two WINTER COMES EARLY AND WITH FULL FORCE to Paradise, Ohio. Chapter Twenty-Three THE DAY HAS GROWN DARK. THE WARM NIGHT carries a… Chapter Twenty-Four FOR ONCE, SINCE WE ARRIVED IN OHIO, THINGS seem to… Chapter Twenty-Five AND THEN THE WEATHER WARMS. BRISK WINDS, bitter cold, and… Chapter Twenty-Six NOBODY SPEAKS. ALL EYES ARE WIDE-OPEN, staring up in shock. Chapter Twenty-Seven I CAN’T SLEEP. I LIE IN BED ST