Falling into Place

Teen & Young Adult Fiction about Bullying

Author: Amy Zhang

Inertia, force, mass, gravity, velocity, acceleration… cause and effect.Liz Emerson doesn’t understand any of it.But I do.I understand how we fall. Where we fall. Why we fall.I understand her sadness and loneliness and silence, her shattered heart.It doesn’t have to be this way, does it?It wasn’t always this way, was it?Stay alive, Liz Emerson, stay alive.On the day Liz….Read More

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