Recommendation: For those seeking a poignant and honest portrayal of the darker side of human experience, with a focus on complex and sympathetic characters grappling with mental illness.

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• Milwaukee County Teen Book Award Nominee (2014)
• Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award for Honor book (2014)
• Lincoln Award Nominee (2017)
• Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Young Adult Fiction (2013)

In addition to the P-38, there are four gifts, one for each of my friends. I want to say good-bye to them properly. I want to give them each something to remember me by. To let them know I really cared about them and I'm sorry I couldn't be more than I was--that I couldn't stick around--and that what's going to happen today isn't their fault.Today is Leonard Peacock's birthday. It is also the day he will kill his former best friend, and then himself, with his grandfather's P-38 pistol. Maybe one day he'll believe that being different is okay, important even. But not today.

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