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Award-winning author Julius Lester tells a heartbreaking story about the devastating effects of domestic violence.

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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0152046984
ISBN-13
9780152046989
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2418407

Product Key Features

Book Title
When Dad Killed Mom
Author
Julius Lester
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Family / Parents, Art & Architecture, Social Themes / Death & Dying, Family / General (See Also Headings under Social Themes), Mysteries & Detective Stories, Family / Siblings, Social Themes / Violence
Publication Year
2003
Genre
Young Adult Fiction, Juvenile Fiction
Number of Pages
216 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
7in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
5.9 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Pz7.L5629
Grade from
Seventh Grade
Grade to
Twelfth Grade
Reviews
"Unerring authenticity. . . . [The book] is spot on."--Chicago Tribune "Gripping."--VOYA "A compelling story suffused with raw and honest emotion."--Kirkus Reviews, Gr 9 Up-Lester brings many attributes to his writing for young people: excellent research, a willingness to confront and present controversial topics, aesthetically whole characterizations, and insight on how young people's concerns do not necessarily match those of their elders. All of these attributes inform this novel, which is narrated in the alternating voices of sixth- and eighth-grade siblings, but which takes on issues that require readers to have attained more maturity than the average peers of these characters. The title sums up precisely the plot: the chief psychologist at a small New England college publicly shoots his wife. The ensuing emotional, social, academic, and legal events are presented as they are experienced by the shy, artistic son and his slightly older sister, who is deep in the throes of a tumultuous adolescence. In contrast with Neal Shusterman's What Daddy Did (Little, Brown, 1991), Lester depicts children who were well aware of trouble brewing between their parents. The adults in their lives after the horrific event include the mother's best friend who, curiously, is the father's first wife; their grandparents; the son's art teacher; and the family of a younger schoolmate. The young people undergo personal turmoil, grief, and self-revelation as time passes. This seems to be the crux of the story: the only certain thing in life is change itself. Lester's characters learn how to handle change or become imprisoned by their inability to handle life.-Francisca Goldsmith, Berkeley Public Library, CA, "Unerring authenticity. . . . [The book] is spot on."--Chicago Tribune "Gripping."--VOYA "A compelling story suffused with raw and honest emotion."--Kirkus Reviews --, Though his subject matter may be sensational, Lester (Pharaoh's Daughter) penetrates the minds of two children left motherless by their father's murder of her, to spin a taut psychological mystery. "My mother is dead. Dad killed her," opens the novel. Through the alternating viewpoints of Jeremy and his older sister, eighth-grader Jenna, readers glean clues to the psychologist father's motive for killing his wife, Rachel. Information that Jeremy uncovers in his mother's diary also sheds light on possible scenarios: inappropriate behavior both professionally and personally on their father's part comes to the fore. The author smoothly balances the children's individual struggles to deal with the aftermath of Rachel's death (their challenges at school, their inability to communicate with each other, their divergent reactions to their father) alongside their attempts to reconcile the facts surrounding her death and their father's subsequent imprisonment. The courtroom scene at the father's trial gives way to melodrama and undermines somewhat the admirable restraint in the preceding chapters. But Lester's exploration of the children's complicated mix of feelings especially Jenna's awakening sense of sexuality in the midst of sorting out her parents problems is subtly and credibly done. Ages 12 and up., "Unerring authenticity. . . . [The book] is spot on."-- Chicago Tribune "Gripping."-- VOYA "A compelling story suffused with raw and honest emotion."-- Kirkus Reviews
Copyright Date
2001
Lccn
00-012033
Dewey Decimal
Fic
Intended Audience
Young Adult Audience
Dewey Edition
21

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