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+McGhee, Alison.
WHAT I LEAVE BEHIND
New York : Atheneum, 2018
IL YA
ISBN 978-1-48147-656-0

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 Walking helps Will cope with his life. His father died and Will is coping. That is when he started walking. He works at the Dollar One store and then walks around LA.  He meets people along the way and forms a type of relationship with them. There is Butterfly boy and others along his route. He has real friends too. Playa has been a good friend since they were little. When bad things keep happening, Will knows he has to get out of his funk and start making a difference in his world. Is that even possible?


SUBJECTS:    Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
                        Grief -- Fiction.
                        Rape -- Fiction.
                        Single-parent families -- Fiction.
                        Stores (Retail) -- Fiction.
                        Suicide -- F iction.

 
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