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Library Journal
Reviewed on September 16, 2011
It's 2001, and ninth grader Tom Coleman is a good kid. He works at the local grocery store, studies for the PSAT, and dreams of fleeing his small Pennsylvania coal town for a college in sunny Florida. Blackwater is not bad, just dull—at least until the town starts changing. The first harbinger of darkness is the attempted robbery of an ATM at the Food Giant, ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
on onSeptember 16, 2011 | LJXpress
It's 2001, and ninth grader Tom Coleman is a good kid. He works at the local grocery store, studies for the PSAT, and dreams of fleeing his small Pennsylvania coal town for a college in sunny Florida. Blackwater is not bad, just dull—at least until the town starts changing. The first harbinger of darkness is the attempted robbery of an ATM at the Food Giant, ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
School Library Journal
Reviewed on December 1, 2011 | Grades 5-up
Gr 8 Up-Set between September 2001, when Flight 93 crashed outside Somerset, PA, and July 2002, when the Quecreek Mine disaster and rescue took place, this novel follows Tom Coleman, a high school freshman who is watching his impoverished town of Blackwater and its residents fall apart. It has become home to methamphetamine addicts, crime at the supermarket where he works is ri...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2011
Tom recounts the events in a year during which methamphetamine addiction ravishes his small Pennsylvania town, loc...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
