Lessons From a Dead Girl
Candlewick Press · Paperback · August 11, 2009
An unflinching story of a troubled friendship — and one girl’s struggle to come to terms with secrets and shame and find her own power to heal.
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- Who it’s for
- A painful, clear-eyed story of friendship, coercion, shame, and the difficult work of healing.
- Themes
- Troubled friendship, Secrets and shame, Forgiveness and healing
- Pacing
- Reflective
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An unflinching story of a troubled friendship — and one girl’s struggle to come to terms with secrets and shame and find her own power to heal. Leah Greene is dead. For Laine, knowing what really happened and the awful feeling that she is, in some way, responsible set her on a journey of painful self-discovery. Yes, she wished for this. She hated Leah that much. Hated her for all the times in the closet, when Leah made her do those things.
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They were just practicing, Leah said. But why did Leah choose her? Was she special, or just easy to control? And why didn’t Laine make it stop sooner? In the aftermath of the tragedy, Laine is left to explore the devastating lessons Leah taught her, find some meaning in them, and decide whether she can forgive Leah and, ultimately, herself.
After the Silence
A painful, clear-eyed story of friendship, coercion, shame, and the difficult work of healing.
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- An unflinching look at a friendship shaped by control and secrecy
Expect
- Grief, painful questions of responsibility, and a search for self-forgiveness
Where it sits
| Surviving Sexual Abuse | 75% |
|---|---|
| Death & Grief for Teens | 59% |
| Mental Illness for Teens | 41% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- YA Stories About Girls & Women
- Death & Grief for Teens
- Surviving Sexual Abuse
- Authors
- Jo Knowles
- Publisher
- Candlewick Press
- Published
- August 11, 2009
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Troubled friendship · Secrets and shame · Forgiveness and healing
- Reading lane
- YA Stories About Girls & Women