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Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
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Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock Hardcover - 2013

by Quick, Matthew

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  • Title Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
  • Author Quick, Matthew
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition 1st
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 2013-08
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 4092969-6
  • ISBN 9780316221337 / 0316221333
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.75 x 6 x 1 in (22.23 x 15.24 x 2.54 cm)
  • Ages 14 to 17 years
  • Grade levels 9 - 12
  • Reading level 980
  • Library of Congress subjects Suicide
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012031410
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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From the publisher

★ "Brilliant.... The masterful writing takes readers inside Leonard's tormented mind, enabling a compassionate response to him and to others dealing with trauma." --School Library Journal, starred review

From New York Times bestselling author Matthew Quick comes an intensely compassionate and important book about a boy who brings a gun to school, and the people and experiences that force him to look beyond his pain.

In addition to the P-38, there are four gifts, one for each of my friends. I want to say good-bye to them properly. I want to give them each something to remember me by. To let them know I really cared about them and I'm sorry I couldn't be more than I was--that I couldn't stick around--and that what's going to happen today isn't their fault.

Today is Leonard Peacock's birthday. It is also the day he hides a gun in his backpack. Because today is the day he will kill his former best friend, and then himself, with his grandfather's P-38 pistol.

But first he must say good-bye to the four people who matter most to him: his Humphrey Bogart-obsessed next-door neighbor, Walt; his classmate, Baback, a violin virtuoso; Lauren, the Christian homeschooler he has a crush on; and Herr Silverman, who teaches the high school's class on the Holocaust. Speaking to each in turn, Leonard slowly reveals his secrets as the hours tick by and the moment of truth approaches.

In this riveting look at a day in the life of a disturbed teenage boy, acclaimed author Matthew Quick unflinchingly examines the impossible choices that must be made--and the light in us all that never goes out.

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About the author

Matthew Quick (aka Q) is the New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook, The Good Luck of Right Now, and three young adult novels, Sorta Like a Rock Star, Boy21, and Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock. His work has been translated into thirty languages, and has received a PEN/Hemingway Award Honorable Mention. The Weinstein Company and David O. Russell adapted The Silver Linings Playbook into an Academy Award winning film. Q lives in North Carolina with his wife, novelist/pianist Alicia Besette. His website is matthewquickwriter.com.

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