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School Library Journal
Reviewed on November 1, 2013 | Grades 9 and Up
Gr 9 Up—How do siblings and others who remain behind cope with suicide? Walker's world is gray; he's haunted by memories of Noah's anger and the fights that his older brother often had with their mother. Now that he is dead, Mom cries every day. There seems to be no healing possible, no resolution, until Jesus strolls into Coaltown, Missouri. Not exactly the biblical Jesus, but one who appears only to infants, the dying, and to Walker. In this spare free-ve...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on October 1, 2013
What if you offered up a prayer, and Jesus answered it in person? That’s what happens to fourteen-year-old W...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2013
Fourteen-year-old Walker offers up a prayer ("my brother's been dead / two whole months, and [Mom's] still crying"), and Jesus...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
