![]() ![]() ![]() Graff writes with a plainspoken, familiar style that’s carefully crafted beneath its apparent simplicity, as with Annie’s sad, wry, perceptive description of people’s tendency to give her the “dead-brother look,” a description that’s both apt and accessible. Finch, who is also mourning a recent loss. It doesn’t help that her parents are finding it hard to look beyond their own grief, and that she’s had a falling out with her best friend what does help is her growing friendship with her kind new neighbor, Mrs. ![]() Only a few months ago, ten-year-old Annie lost her older brother, Jared, to a freak accident since then, Annie has been overwhelmed by the risks to survival in everyday life, burying herself in medical information and wearing her bike helmet whenever possible. ![]()
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