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A boy is racked by guilt. His family have moved house and school to help him come to terms with a violent event at his best friend's house, to no avail. Little do they realise just how much he knows about this unspoken tragedy - and how well-placed he was to prevent it. Keeping dark secrets buried deep down is always a mistake - and when it causes you to become vulnerable to all the petty thuggery of the playground, more tragedy seems inevitable. Told in the eleven-year-old boy's own idiom, by carefully constructed flashback, this startlingly moving cliffhanger explores every range of bullying, and every response: the ambitious dad, the copy-cat son, the mob rule of the classroom, and the benign blindness of a hapless family. It all boils down to one question: just how guilty are you, when you knew but did not say?
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This Is What I Did, Ann Dee Ellis
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- Released
- 2007
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- Title
- This Is What I Did
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Ann Dee Ellis
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Released
- 2007
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 166
- ISBN10
- 1842706772
- ISBN13
- 9781842706770
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Young Adult, Contemporary Fiction, American Literature, Realistic Fiction, Abuse, Bullying
- First published
- 2007
- Original title
- This is What I Did
- Rating
- 4.35 out of 5
- Description
- A boy is racked by guilt. His family have moved house and school to help him come to terms with a violent event at his best friend's house, to no avail. Little do they realise just how much he knows about this unspoken tragedy - and how well-placed he was to prevent it. Keeping dark secrets buried deep down is always a mistake - and when it causes you to become vulnerable to all the petty thuggery of the playground, more tragedy seems inevitable. Told in the eleven-year-old boy's own idiom, by carefully constructed flashback, this startlingly moving cliffhanger explores every range of bullying, and every response: the ambitious dad, the copy-cat son, the mob rule of the classroom, and the benign blindness of a hapless family. It all boils down to one question: just how guilty are you, when you knew but did not say?