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What I Leave Behind
by Alison McGhee
Illustrator: Sherman Ng
Ages: 14+
Published: 2018
Publisher: A Caitlyn Dlouhy Book/Atheneum BFYR/Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 978-1-4814-7656-0
Keywords: Grief, Parent and Child, Suicide, Rape
Sensitive, gentle, sixteen-year-old Will walks the L.A. streets trying to outpace his grief over his father's suicide and despair over his friend's gang-rape. Soft grey Chinese calligraphy.