This is What I Did

By Ann Dee Ellis,

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Imagine if you had witnessed something horrific.
Imagine if it had happened to your friend.
And imagine if you hadn't done anything to help.

That's what it's like to be Logan, an utterly frank, slightly awkward, and extremely loveable outcast enmeshed in a mysterious psychological drama. This story allows readers…

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1 author picked This is What I Did as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

As a writer, I absolutely worship the spare, unique voice that Ellis gives her main character, thirteen-year-old Logan.

Logan is intensely awkward and reluctant to tell the whole story of how he betrayed a friend, and as a reader, that kept me turning the pages. “Last week, Bruce kicked me in the balls at Scouts, and all his buddies were there laughing, and I started crying.” What an opening line for a book for any reader who has been through that no-man’s-land of thirteen.

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