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Maybe

Brent Runyon

2006208 pagesabout 3–5 hours
2006
first published
  • 2008Random HouseISBN 9780553495089
  • 2008Random House Children's Books · ENGISBN 9780375849930
  • 2006Knopf Books for Young Readers · 208 pages · ENGISBN 9780375835438
  • 2006Knopf Books for Young Readers · 208 pages · ENGISBN 9780375935435

Maybe everything will be different here. Maybe I should drive away and never come back. Maybe my brother didn't mean to. Maybe my brother was right. Maybe I can get someone to have sex with me. Maybe no one will ever love me. Maybe I should be an actor. Maybe I shouldn't pretend to be deaf.Maybe if I mouth the words no one will know I'm not singing. But maybe someone, somehow, will hear me anyway.Brent Runyon offers a raw, wrenching novel of a boy on the edge. It's a powerful story about love and loss and death and anger and the near impossibility for a sixteen-year-old boy to both understand how he feels and to make himself heard.From the Hardcover edition.

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Written forMiddle grade
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