When Dad killed Mom
(2003)

Fiction

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PUBLISHED
[United States]: HMH Books for Young Readers, 2003
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1 online resource

ISBN/ISSN
9780547564234 (electronic bk.) MWT11938260, 0547564236 (electronic bk.) 11938260
LANGUAGE
English
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A brother and sister cope with loss and trauma-and fight to keep what's left of their family together-in a "compelling" novel by a Newbery Honor Medal winner. Jenna and Jeremy knew their parents' marriage was in trouble. That was pretty obvious. But no one who knew the family could have predicted what would come next. One afternoon, Jenna and Jeremy are pulled from class and given horrifying news: their father, a college psychologist, has just shot their mother to death on a public street. Now, Mom is dead, Dad is in jail, and a fifth-grade boy and his fourteen-year-old sister have a lot to reconcile. Not only grief, anger, confusion, and guilt-but their dad's motive, the secrets in their mother's diary, and shifting loyalties that are driving Jenna and Jeremy even further apart. With their fragile new lives in free fall, and their father about to stand trial, they're now going to have to confront the unimaginable

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