- Self-perception, Teenage boys, Fiction, Fiction, general
With his family life falling apart after his mother is paralyzed in a drunk-driving accident, Adam McCormik is drawn to the site where the body of a murdered classmate, Jamie Marks, a boy ignored by almost everyone, had been found and finds himself entering into a strange friendship with a ghost.
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Contemporary, grave, earnest and classical in form.
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- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Christopher Barzak
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 314
- Publisher
- Bantam Dell, Bantam
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780553384369
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