White Pine Award 2022 ShortlistedDuring a sweltering summer, Dills must come to terms with a horrific crime and the parent he loves who committed it.Dills and his mom have returned to Hamilton, her hometown, hoping to leave the horrors of Windsor behind. But its impossible to escape the echoes of tragedy, and trouble always follows trouble. When Dills hurts a new classmate, it comes out in court that he was in the Windsor High library when the shooter came in. But he wont talk about what he saw, what he still sees whenever he closes his eyes. He cant. He definitely cant tell anyone that the Windsor Shooter is his stepfather, Jesse, that Jesse can speak into his mind from hundreds of kilometres away, and that Dills still loves him even though he committed an unspeakable crime.

 

 

This book is the winner of numerous awards

This book has been graded for interest at 15-18 years.

There are 304 pages in this book.

It is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed.

This book was published in 2021 by Dundurn Group Ltd .