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Gr 8-Up Keegan, 15, is besieged by problems. His mother is in a mental institution, his older brother ran away years ago, and his father is caught up in his own problems and barely notices his son's existence. The teen's frail health and small size make him the object of ridicule at school, and he is haunted by the "ghost" of his twin brother, Michael, who died at birth. Steeped in stories of saints and martyrs at his Catholic school, Keegan decides that he will stop the pain and join his twin by...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Fifteen-year-old Keegan Flannery is completely consumed by guilt, blaming himself for his brother's death—he survived the premature birth his twin didn't—and the family's subsequent breaking apart. As a child, Keegan watched helplessly as his mother tried to drown herself in the ocean; she has been in a psychiatric hospital ever since, and Keegan believes that his father blames him. Now, as Keegan approaches his sixteenth birthday, he's come up with a plan: by taking his own life he'll so...Log In or Sign Up to Read More