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Summary: As the tragic death of her older brother devastates the family, teenaged London struggles to find redemption and finds herself torn between her brother's best friend and a handsome new boy in town.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781442443549 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 1442443545 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: print
    335 pages ; 18 cm
  • Edition: 1st Simon and Schuster BFYR pbk. ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Simon and Schuster Books For Young Readers, 2013.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"A Paula Wiseman book."
Target Audience Note:
Ages 14 up.
HL 700 Lexile.
HL700L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 3.5 5.0 152508.
Awards Note:
Eliot Rosewater nominee, 2015-2016.
Subject: Grief Fiction
Families Fiction
Brothers and sisters Fiction
Young adult fiction
Siblings
Families
Grief
Young adult fiction
Genre: Fiction.

Available copies

  • 8 of 8 copies available at Evergreen Indiana. (Show)
  • 0 of 0 copies available at Tyson Library Association, Inc..
  • 0 of 0 copies available at Tyson Library - Versailles.

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  • 0 current holds with 8 total copies.
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