Lawson’s extraordinary knack for navigating typical teenage-rule predicaments-parent problems, friend frustration, budding desire-and the most searing circumstances-loss, terror, rage, fault-keeps the plot at a boil. As May begins putting herself back together, Zach learns what being there truly entails. When Lucy auditions for Conor’s band, May and Zach meet cute. When his attorney mother defends the shooter, almost everybody he knows-except his best friend, Conor-abandons him. Zach has been taking care of his family, especially younger sister Gwen, since his father fell into a deep depression five years ago. She’s struggled with survivor’s guilt and PTSD ever since, and her best friend, Lucy, is the only person who keeps her going. May is the sole survivor of a massacre that robbed her twin brother, favorite teacher, and five peers of their lives. In alternating first-person narration, two familiar character types-loose-cannon May McGintee and awkward try-hard Zach Teller-are quickly defamiliarized. Should we (librarians) put this on the top of our “to read” piles? Very near.Two teens find each other (and themselves) with a little help from their friends in this story of survival, perseverance, and hope. Where would you shelve it? Young adult fiction Who should buy this book? All public and high school libraries It could work well as required summer reading. To whom would you recommend this book? This is an excellent topical, timely and contemporary story for teens. It’s all here.Īnything you did not like about the book? No. The guilt for what one has done and not done. The ones left-behind to grieve and what it does to their families. Neither is aware of who the other actually is. Then she actually meets Zach, her age, at the new school she is attending after her previous one was closed. She sneaks over to the lawyer’s house at night and spray paints messages on their garage or vandalizes in other ways. May hates her for doing this though she has never met her. Zach’s mother is an attorney who is defending David. The shooter, David, another student, whom May has tutored, is in prison awaiting trial. What did you like about the book? May survived a school shooting but her twin brother was killed right outside the closet where she was hiding. Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 4.5
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