How She Died, How I Lived (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780316523820)

Girl in Pieces meets The Way I Used to Be in this poignant and thought-provoking novel about a girl who must overcome her survivor's guilt after a fellow classmate is brutally murdered.

I was one of five. The five girls Kyle texted that day. The girls it could have been. Only Jamie--beautiful, saintly Jamie--was kind enough to respond. And it got her killed.

On the eve of Kyle's sentencing a year after Jamie's death, all the other "chosen ones" are coping in various ways. But our tenacious narrator is full of anger, stuck somewhere between the horrifying past and the unknown future as she tries to piece together why she gets to live, while Jamie is dead.

Now she finds herself drawn to Charlie, Jamie's boyfriend--knowing all the while that their relationship will always be haunted by what-ifs and why-nots. Is hope possible in the face of such violence? Is forgiveness? How do you go on living when you know it could have been you instead?

Author: Mary Crockett
ISBN-10: 0316523828
ISBN-13: 9780316523820
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Language: English
Published: 11/12/2019
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.20d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.5
Point Value: 11
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 502217 / How She Died, How I Lived