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School Library Journal
Starred Review on February 1, 2017 | Young Adult
Gr 10 Up—When Sebastian Cody was four years old, he accidentally shot and killed his infant sister with his father's gun. A decade later, in the summer before his sophomore year in high school, he can no longer endure the guilt, everyone's knowing and nervous stares, and the constant feeling that he doesn't deserve to be alive. Sebastian decides to take his own life at the end of the summer in the same way that he took his sister's. Knowing it will all be over soon is a comforting, relaxing thought—until he meets Aneesa, a Muslim girl who has moved in down the ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on March 1, 2018
Having lived with the knowledge that, as a four-year-old, he accidentally shot and killed his baby sister, Sebastian plans to ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More