Jacquelyn Mitchard
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 22
Physical Desc
434 p.
Language
English
Description
"Watch your brother," Beth Cappadora tells Vincent, 7. Five minutes later she returns, "Where is Ben?" It is the moment every parent fears and it arrives to a mother of three in Chicago. The novel follows the family as year after year the hope of finding Ben recedes. Nine years later a boy knocks on their door looking for lawn work. It can't be. It is.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
312 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Maureen and Bridget, two sixteen-year-old best friends who look like sisters, are in a terrible car accident and one of them dies, they are at first incorrectly identified at the hospital, and then, as Maureen achieves a remarkable recovery, she must deal with the repercussions of the accident, the mix-up, and some choices she made while she was getting better.