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311 pp.
| Candlewick |
May, 2012 |
TradeISBN 978-0-7636-5407-8$16.99
(2)
4-6
Twelve-year-old Fern's family is frustrating. Then her three-year-old brother Charlie dies after a freak accident and readers feel the family's grief, and Charlie's absence, acutely. A possible romance with her best friend Random is a sign that all can be...if not well, then maybe okay. This is a powerful portrait of a flawed but loving family that experiences the unthinkable--and survives.
Reviewer: Rachel L. Smith
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
September, 2012