This is not a love letter /
Purcell, Kim,
This is not a love letter / This isn't a love letter Kim Purcell. - First edition. - 356 pages ; 22 cm
Follows small town girl Jessie as she deals with first love and loss. When Jessie's boyfriend, Chris, disappears right before graduation, she presses the police to investigate, fearing that Chris--who is black--has been targeted for violence. Jessie and Chris are taking a one-week break to get some perspective before graduation and the big, scary decisions about their future. Then, Chris vanishes; the police think he's run away. He was about to head off to college on a full-ride baseball scholarship. And he disappeared on a run along the river-- where some boys from the rival high school beat him up just three weeks ago. As Jessie searches for answers, she must face her fears, her guilt, and a past more complicated than she would like to admit.
9781484798348 1484798341
2016058454
Race relations--Fiction.
Loss (Psychology)--Fiction.
Interracial dating--Fiction.
Missing persons--Fiction.
High school students--Fiction.
Teenagers--Crimes against--Fiction.
City and town life--Fiction.
Romance fiction.
Young adult fiction.
This is not a love letter / This isn't a love letter Kim Purcell. - First edition. - 356 pages ; 22 cm
Follows small town girl Jessie as she deals with first love and loss. When Jessie's boyfriend, Chris, disappears right before graduation, she presses the police to investigate, fearing that Chris--who is black--has been targeted for violence. Jessie and Chris are taking a one-week break to get some perspective before graduation and the big, scary decisions about their future. Then, Chris vanishes; the police think he's run away. He was about to head off to college on a full-ride baseball scholarship. And he disappeared on a run along the river-- where some boys from the rival high school beat him up just three weeks ago. As Jessie searches for answers, she must face her fears, her guilt, and a past more complicated than she would like to admit.
9781484798348 1484798341
2016058454
Race relations--Fiction.
Loss (Psychology)--Fiction.
Interracial dating--Fiction.
Missing persons--Fiction.
High school students--Fiction.
Teenagers--Crimes against--Fiction.
City and town life--Fiction.
Romance fiction.
Young adult fiction.