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Plot Summary
Josie (the main character) a teenage girl in Sterling High. She starts her morning off with her and her mom having yet another disagreement, her mother, Alex, is a judge in Grafton county. Her mother seems to put her job in front of Josie and they never spent time together being that she always has to work a case. Alex is telling Josie on why she should eat breakfast. Later Josie goes upstairs to take a shower and thinks about how depressed she is. When Josie returns from her shower instead of her mom being in the kitchen Matt is the high school jock.

He is sitting in his car waiting for the light to change when he hears gun shots coming from Sterling high school. He hesitates at first but then rushes into the building to find Peter on the ground about to kill himself; Patrick quickly disarms him and arrest him. He also finds Josie on the floor with blood running down her face. Peter is counting cinder blocks in jail. He is w to be free and he thinks he shouldn't be there. Jordan, his lawyer, listens to Peter's life story, even though it took some time to get him to talk. He goes on telling his lawyer that every since nursery school he has been bullied. Jordan asks him about talking to the teachers but the didn't do anything, "Ignore them" they would say or "We'll watch out for you" but nothing ever changed. Josie tries to kill herself. The Houghton's keep blaming theirselves for Peter's rampage. During the trial the book starts talking about how Josie and Peter use to be friends in the sixth grade. Peter is constantly bullied by Matt and his crew. One day after soccer practice Peter takes a peek at Matts penis, and Matt later calls him a homosexual. After the incident Peter starts to question his sexuality. The day after Peter is talking to Josie, she tells Peter that she can no longer hang out with him anymore because Josie is starting to hang out with Matt and Courtney, the popular kids. After Peter did some questioning of his sexuality he finds out he has devolped feelings for Josie.

The trial begins and Alex struggles with keeping her poker face. The judge had a hard time reading off the names and then gave the case over to a new judge. Which led to Josie being called up as a witness. Throughout the book Josie never told the whole story or says "I can't remember." Josie admits to killing Matt, her boyfriend. Which helped Peter slightly. Jordan's idea of saying he had post-traumatic syndrome did not give him aquitted therefore, he must spend 22 years in prison. At the end of the book Alex and Patrick walk the halls of Sterling, which is a completly different school due to remodling. And she notices a kid being tripped and Alex says "after all that nothing has changed."?

Characters
Drew: One of the popular kids who was only wounded in the shooting.

Brady: Another popular kid who dated Courtney.

Derek: Peter's only "friend" after Josie leaves him for the popular crowd.

Mr. McCabe: A non-openly gay teacher who ends up dying during the shooting.

Joey: Peter's dead brother.

Logan: Josie's biological father. [edit] reception

A critic from Peoples Magazine wrote."A brilliantly told tale one that dares to remind us that someone loves the killer to". "Picoult gets inside the heads of adolescents," wrote Jocelyn McClurg from USA today. Although the novel has not won any awards, Jodi Picoult was a #1 best selling author for 18 weeks.

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