Mick Harte Was Here

About this book

How could someone like Mick die? He was the kid who freaked out his mom by putting a ceramic eye in a defrosted chicken the kid who did a wild dance in front of the whole school--and the kid who if only he had worn his bicycle helmet would still be alive today. But now Phoebe Hartes twelve-year-old brother is gone and Phoebes world has turned upside down. With her trademark candor and compassion beloved middle-grade writer Barbara Park tells how Phoebe copes with her painful loss in this story filled with sadness humor--and hope. Chosen by Publishers Weekly as one of their Best Books of 1996.