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School Library Journal
Starred Review on August 1, 2013 | Preschool to Grade 4
Gr 10 Up—Leonard Peacock has big plans for his 18th birthday. He plans to kill Asher Beal and then commit suicide. Leonard is a loner, an outcast, a misfit. Asher is a superpopular jock/bully. But they used to be friends, best friends. Something happened when they were 12, something bad. Leonard has had no one to confide in-his washed-up rock-musician dad is on the lam and his self-absorbed, oblivious mother forgets that she has a son. His anger, emotional pain, and brokenness build until he feels there is nothing left t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on August 1, 2013
Eighteen-year-old Leonard Peacock used to be "boring, nice, and normal." Now, he's packing a P-38 WWII Nazi handgun and planning to kill his former best friend Asher, then himself. Leonard claims that Asher has become "the closest modern-day equivalent of a Nazi that we have at my high school," a boy who has so damaged Leonard's life that Leonard sees no future with himself (or...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
