Right Behind You, (Paperback)

from MeriJenBen

Kip set his next door neighbor on fire when he was 9 years old. Reeling from the death of his mother, and cut off from his father, his anger took control of him. Kip spends the next 4 years in a mental hospital, and then, under an assumed name, tries to live a normal life. Although Kip may be gon...

from WickedWoWestwood

I liked this book because it showed how a boy had to work through a horrible incident that he had caused and how it effected his whole family for years. It may be difficult for some teens to read but it does have good lessons to be learned. I think it would be a good book to use for a teen discus...

from dfullmer

This was a striking YA novel about a young man struggling to move on with his life after killing a boy at the age of nine. The killing was an act of rage, and he did not intend for the boy to be harmed. Kip spends several years in a youth detention facility and then is released to his father's ca...

from bellalibrarian

Skip sets a boy on fire when he is ten years old. While Skip is being held in a mental hospital, life does not continue as he knew it. Once Skip leaves the hospital, he and his family must make many changes in order for them all to adjust. A great novel about mistakes, facing the past, and findin...

from tbergmeier769

Kip was a normal Alaskan boy who lived in the bush. The only thing that made him different was that he burned a kid to death when he was 9. For the next 5 years he spent time in a mental ward for kids. He spent that time trying to find out why he kill Bobby. When he gets let out he has to change ...