{"product_id":"swallowing-stones-isbn-9780307976093","title":"Swallowing Stones","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor anyone who has wanted to change the past, this captivating and haunting novel is about seemingly innocent choices and their devastating consequences. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e When Michael fires his new rifle into the air on his seventeenth birthday, he never imagines that the bullet will end up killing someone. But it does—and Michael’s world is changed forever. Desperate, he wrestles with his guilt and keeps silent as his life begins to fall apart.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e When Jenna’s father is killed in a freak Fourth of July accident, she’s devastated. As she grieves, she tries to understand why she no longer feels comfortable with her boyfriend, Jason, and why a guy named Michael keeps appearing in her dreams. . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[An] electrifying portrayal of fear and deception.\" –\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\"Readers will quickly become absorbed in this \u003cb\u003eelectrifying portrayal of fear and deception\u003c\/b\u003e.\" –\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “The unexpected consequences of celebratory gunfire are the topic of this well-written novel . . . [It] will appeal to a broad audience, and it is a \u003cb\u003egreat vehicle for discussions about guns, violence, and responsibility\u003c\/b\u003e.” –\u003ci\u003eVOYA  \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “When 17-year-old Michael discovers that he has accidentally killed the father of a schoolmate, he wrestles with his own guilt until he can no longer keep his terrible secret. \u003cb\u003eA compassionate story focusing on both the killer and the family left to grieve the loss of a father and husband\u003c\/b\u003e.” –\u003ci\u003eSchool Library Journal \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Deliberately paced but \u003cb\u003edeeply felt \u003c\/b\u003edrama.” –\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003eJoyce McDonald is the author of several critically acclaimed young adult and middle-grade novels, including \u003ci\u003eShades of Simon Gray,\u003c\/i\u003e an Edgar Allan Poe Award nominee and an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, and \u003ci\u003eDevil on My Heels,\u003c\/i\u003e nominated for five state awards. She is also a poet and is on the faculty of the low-residency MFA in writing program at Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky. She lives in Forks Township, Pennsylvania, with her husband. Visit Joyce at joycemcdonald.net and on Twitter at @JoyceMcDonald46.It was all true, then. The nightmare was real. Michael could no longer pretend, as he sometimes did, that there was a chance he hadn't fired that fatal shot. The bullet had come from somewhere in his neighborhood. The chances of someone else in such a small area shooting off a gun around noon on that same day were probably one in a million. He had spent weeks trying to get used to the idea that he had committed this hideous act. But always, somewhere, there had been hope. A bullet traveling a mile or more through the air could have come from as far away as the next town over. There had always been the outside chance that someone else had fired a gun into the air that Fourth of July afternoon. Now that chance no longer existed.","brand":"Ember","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303300878565,"sku":"NP9780307976093","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780307976093.jpg?v=1767737644","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/swallowing-stones-isbn-9780307976093","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}