I Was Here
Penguin Young Readers Group · Paperback · January 26, 2016
The newest heartwrenchingly powerful novel from the bestelling author of IF I STAY.
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- Who it’s for
- A serious, immersive read with emotional weight and Gayle Forman’s familiar restraint.
- Genres
- Teen Suicide, Mental Illness for Teens, Death & Grief for Teens
- Published
- Penguin Young Readers Group, January 26, 2016
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The newest heartwrenchingly powerful novel from the bestelling author of IF I STAY. When her best friend Meg drinks a bottle of industrial-strength cleaner alone in a motel room, Cody is understandably shocked and devastated. She and Meg shared everything—so how was there no warning? But when Cody travels to Meg’s college town to pack up the belongings left behind, she discovers that there’s a lot that Meg never told her.
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About her old roommates, the sort of people Cody never would have met in her dead-end small town in Washington. About Ben McAllister, the boy with a guitar and a sneer, and some secrets of his own. And about an encrypted computer file that Cody can’t open—until she does, and suddenly everything Cody thought she knew about her best friend’s death gets thrown into question. I Was Here is Gayle Forman at her finest, a taut, emotional, and ultimately redemptive story about redefining the meaning of family and finding a way to move forward even in the face of unspeakable loss.
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A serious, immersive read with emotional weight and Gayle Forman’s familiar restraint.
Come here for
- serious teen-facing emotional terrain
- friendship, romance, and mental-health threads
Expect
- grief-forward atmosphere
- a sustained narrative, not a light detour
Where it sits
| Teen Suicide | 81% |
|---|---|
| Death & Grief for Teens | 48% |
| Mental Illness for Teens | 43% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- YA Mysteries
- Friendship for Teens
- Teen Suicide
- Authors
- Gayle Forman
- Publisher
- Penguin Young Readers Group
- Published
- January 26, 2016
- Format
- Paperback
- Reading lane
- YA Mysteries