Swallowing stones

Joyce McDonald First published 1997

About this book

Dual perspectives reveal the aftermath of seventeen-year-old Michael MacKenzie's birthday celebration during which he discharges an antique Winchester rifle and unknowingly kills the father of high school classmate Jenna Ward.

Subjects

  • children's fiction
  • death
  • death, fiction
  • donna harsh collection
  • families
  • family
  • family life
  • family life, fiction
  • fiction
  • grief
  • grief, fiction
  • guilt
  • juvenile fiction
  • young adult fiction