AfterMath
Language: English
Family Fiction Fiction - Middle Grade Friendship Grief Healing Middle-Grade Fiction Middle-Grade Novel Middle-Grade Novels Novel Novels gun violence kindness mime school school shooting trauma
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
Published: Aug 2, 2021
Description:
"This book is a gift to the culture." —Amy Schumer, writer, actor, and activist
After her brother's death from a congenital heart defect, twelve-year-old Lucy is not prepared to be the new kid at school—especially in a grade full of survivors of a shooting that happened four years ago. Without the shared past that both unites and divides her classmates, Lucy feels isolated and unable to share her family's own loss, which is profoundly different from the trauma of her peers.
Lucy clings to her love of math, which provides the absolute answers she craves. But through budding friendships and an after-school mime class, Lucy discovers that while grief can take many shapes and sadness may feel infinite, love is just as powerful.