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A perfect mistake / Melanie Conklin.

Conklin, Melanie. (Author).

Summary:

Eleven-year-old Max struggles with his ADHD and making mistakes, so when a mistake leaves one friend in a coma and another shutting him out, Max resolves to find out what really happened that night.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0316668583
  • ISBN: 9780316668583
  • Physical Description: 265 pages ; 21 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2022.

Content descriptions

Immediate Source of Acquisition Note:
LSC 22.99
Subject: Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder > Juvenile fiction.
Best friends > Juvenile fiction.
Friendship > Juvenile fiction.
Guilt > Juvenile fiction.
Life change events > Juvenile fiction.
Coma > Patients > Juvenile fiction.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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  • Baker & Taylor
    To remember the events on the night that left his friend Will in a coma, Max enlists the help of a classmate and aspiring journalist, but not everyone wants the truth to be revealed. 20,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
  • Baker & Taylor
    Eleven-year-old Max struggles with his ADHD and making mistakes, so when a mistake leaves one friend in a coma and another shutting him out, Max resolves to find out what really happened that night.
  • Grand Central Pub
    A moving, voice-driven novel about friendship, responsibility, and fighting against unfair expectations, for fans of Rebecca Stead and Erin Entrada Kelly.
     
    Max wishes he could go back in time to before he was diagnosed with ADHD, before he grew to be the tallest kid in his class, and before he and his best friends went into the woods in the middle of the night. Max doesn’t remember what happened after he left his friends Will and Joey and the older kids who took them there. He’s not sure if he wants to remember. Knowing isn’t going to make Joey talk to him again, or bring Will out of his coma.
     
    When the local authorities run out of leads, Max realizes that without his help, they may never know what really happened to Will. Charged by the idea that he may be the key to uncovering the truth, Max pairs up with classmate and aspiring journalist Sam to investigate what really happened that night. But not everyone in the community wants that night to be remembered.
  • HARPERCOLL
    Max wishes he could go back in time.

    Before he was diagnosed with ADHD, before he grew to be the tallest kid in his class, and before he and his best friends went into the woods in the middle of the night. Max can’t remember what happened after he left his friends Will and Joey and the older kids who took them there. He’s not sure if he wants to know. Knowing isn’t going to make Joey talk to him again, or bring Will out of his coma.
     
    When the local authorities run out of leads, Max realizes that without his help, they may never know what really happened to Will. Charged by the idea that he may be the key to uncovering the truth, Max pairs up with classmate and aspiring journalist Sam to investigate what really happened that night. But not everyone in the community wants that night to be remembered.
     
    With A Perfect Mistake, Melanie Conklin delivers a moving novel about friendship, responsibility, and fighting against unfair expectations, for fans of Rebecca Stead and Erin Entrada Kelly.

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