This was a great book, well-written, heartbreaking, an exploration of grief and healing and the changing friendships as kids enter adolescence. SO MANY FEELINGS. 
 There's talk of putting it on the summer reading list. Which already includes See You at Harry's and something else that treads on similar ground. And really, could we maybe give a kid a book to read that DOESN'T center on grief and make the reader cry buckets? maybe?