The Impossible Knife of Memory Award-winning author/illustrator

Think war is all about remembrance? For Hayley’s dad, it’s a battle to forget – with Hayley caught in the crossfire. Tough, sad: a different kind of war story. This year, everybody’s talking about war. And so is Laurie Halse Anderson. But not the 1914 kind. The kind that happens now, and someone you love comes home and isn’t the same anymore. When a soldier is discharged, is the battle over? Not for Hayley’s dad, who drinks and lashes out. That leaves Hayley fighting too: to get Dad to work, to make it to school, to avoid her horrid stepmum. And fighting not to fall in love with Finn, who really seems to get to her. Incredibly moving, impossibly gripping. Hallmark Laurie.

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