Ten-year-old Jennifer Day lives in a small mining town full of secrets. Trying to make sense of the sudden death of her teenage sister, Beth, she looks to the adult world around her for answers.
As she recounts the final months of Beth's life, Jennifer sifts through the lies and the truth, but what she finds are mysteries, miracles, and more questions. Was Beth's death an accident? Why couldn't Jennifer - or anyone else - save her?
Through Jennifer's eyes, we see one girl's failure to cross the threshold into adulthood as her family slowly falls apart.
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
As she recounts the final months of Beth's life, Jennifer sifts through the lies and the truth, but what she finds are mysteries, miracles, and more questions. Was Beth's death an accident? Why couldn't Jennifer - or anyone else - save her?
Through Jennifer's eyes, we see one girl's failure to cross the threshold into adulthood as her family slowly falls apart.
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
Praise for this book
"Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it. The Anatomy of Wings is one of those books." - Markus Zusak
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