This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or, if real, are used fictitiously.

Copyright © 2006 by M. T. Anderson
Cover photograph copyright © 2011 by Peter Zelei/iStockphoto

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First adult electronic edition 2011

The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:

Anderson, M. T.
The Pox party / taken from accounts by [Octavian Nothing’s] own hand and other sundry sources ; collected by Mr. M. T. Anderson of Boston.
p.    cm. — (The astonishing life of Octavian Nothing, traitor to the nation ; v. 1)
Summary:  Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.
ISBN 978-0-7636-2402-6 (hardcover)
[1. Freedom — Fiction.  2. Slavery — Fiction.  3. Science — Experiments — Fiction. 4. African Americans — Fiction.  5. Massachusetts — History — Revolution, 1775–1783 — Fiction. 6. United States — History — Revolution, 1775–1783 — Fiction.]    I. Title.
PZ7.A54395Pox  2006
[Fic] — dc22        2006043170

ISBN 978-0-7636-3679-1 (paperback)
ISBN 978-0-7636-5376-7 (adult paperback)
ISBN 978-0-7636-5178-7 (electronic)
ISBN 978-0-7636-5659-1 (adult electronic)

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