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Text © 2025 Lisi Harrison and Daniel Kraus

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ISBN 978-1-4549-4460-7 (hardcover)

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ISBN 978-1-4549-4461-4 (ebook)

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Harrison, Lisi, author. | Kraus, Daniel, author.

Title: The joker’s on you / Lisi Harrison and Daniel Kraus.

Other titles: The joker is on you

Description: New York : Union Square Kids, 2025. | Series: Graveyard Girls; book 4 | Audience term: Preteens | Audience: Ages 8-12. | Audience: Grades 4-6. | Summary: “The Graveyard Girls face off against a sentient house while they struggle to keep their friendship alive”—Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2025000668 (print) | LCCN 2025000669 (ebook) | ISBN 9781454944607 (hardback) | ISBN 9781454945208 (paperback) | ISBN 9781454944614 (ebook)

Subjects: CYAC: Dwellings—Fiction. | Artificial intelligence—Fiction. | Friendship—Fiction. | Horror stories. | LCGFT: Horror fiction. | Novels.

Classification: LCC PZ7.H2527 Jo 2025 (print) | LCC PZ7.H2527 (ebook) | DDC [Fic]—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2025000668

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CONTENTS

COVER

TITLE PAGE

COPYRIGHT

DEDICATION

CHAPTER 1: ZUZU

CHAPTER 2: FRANNIE

CHAPTER 3: GEMMA

CHAPTER 4: SOPHIE

CHAPTER 5: WHISPER

CHAPTER 6: ZUZU

CHAPTER 7: FRANNIE

CHAPTER 8: GEMMA

CHAPTER 1: WHISPER

CHAPTER 10: SOPHIE

CHAPTER 11: FRANNIE

CHAPTER 12: ZUZU

CHAPTER 13: GEMMA

CHAPTER 14: SOPHIE

CHAPTER 15: FRANNIE

THE JOKER’S ON YOU: PART ONE

THE JOKER’S ON YOU: PART TWO

THE JOKER’S ON YOU: PART THREE

THE JOKER’S ON YOU: PART FOUR

CHAPTER 16: FRANNIE

CHAPTER 17: GEMMA

CHAPTER 18: SOPHIE

CHAPTER 19: FRANNIE

CHAPTER 20: WHISPER

CHAPTER 21: FRANNIE

CHAPTER 22: ZUZU

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

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