Bibliograph

What I leave behind, Alison McGhee

Type

Label

What I leave behind, Alison McGhee

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Intended audience

HL550L, LexileDecoding demand: 81 (very high), Semantic demand: 97 (very high), Syntactic demand: 86 (very high), Structure demand: 86 (very high), Lexile

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

What I leave behind

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1035847447

Responsibility statement

Alison McGhee

Summary

Since his father's suicide, Will, sixteen, has mainly walked, worked at Dollar Only, and tried to replicate his father's cornbread recipe, but the rape of his childhood friend shakes things upSince his father's suicide, Will tries to overcome his own misery by secretly helping the people around him-- and trying to replicate his late father's famous cornbread recipe. When Will learns his friend Playa was raped at a party, he believes he could have stopped the worst from happening if he hadn't left early, he's determined do some good in the world. Will acts of kindness help Will push past his own trauma and truly begin to live his life again? Oh, and discover the truth about that cornbread

Target audience

adolescent

Classification