From the first page you know how much he loves his parents and he is writing this to them so they know what happened to him after he died and that he's okay. He's a nerd and he's bullied and as you find out from the first page, is dead and in the heaven for 13 year old Americans called Town. Thirteen year old Oliver 'Boo' Dalrymple self described 'pariah' had not a friend on earth. And once in a while I read a book that gets to me so much that it leaves me kind of a mess - torn between sadness and the happiness of feeling hope. He's a nerd and he's bullied and as you find out from the first page, is dead and in the heave I love when I read a book that truly gets to me and one that I know will have a lasting impact on me.

I love when I read a book that truly gets to me and one that I know will have a lasting impact on me. In a heartrending story written to his beloved parents, the odd but endearing Boo relates his astonishing heavenly adventures as he tests the limits of friendship, learns about forgiveness and, finally, makes peace with the boy he once was and the boy he can now be.more With help from the volatile Johnny, a classmate killed at the same school, Boo sets out to track down the mysterious Gunboy who cut short both their lives. What’s more, his killer may also be in heaven. But soon after arriving in this hereafter reserved for dead thirteen-year-olds, Boo discovers he’s a 'gommer', a kid who was murdered. When Oliver 'Boo' Dalrymple wakes up in heaven, the eighth-grade science geek thinks he died of a heart defect at his school. When Oliver 'Boo' Dalrymple wakes up in heaven, the eighth-grade science geek thinks he died of a heart de Winner of the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and a nominee for the Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award and the Sunburst Award, Boo is a dark but whimsical debut novel about starting over in the afterlife in the vein of Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones. Winner of the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and a nominee for the Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award and the Sunburst Award, Boo is a dark but whimsical debut novel about starting over in the afterlife in the vein of Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones.

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