![]() ![]() ![]() I Was Here is Gayle Forman at her finest, a taut, emotional, and ultimately redemptive story about redefining the meaning of family and finding a way to move forward even in the face of unspeakable loss.Ĭlassroom application: Since the novel deals with depression and suicide, it would be a good springboard into research and further discussion of those topics. And about an encrypted computer file that Cody can't open - until she does, and suddenly everything Cody thought she knew about her best friend's death gets thrown into question. About Ben McAllister, the boy with a guitar and a sneer, and some secrets of his own. About her old roommates, the sort of people Cody never would have met in her dead-end small town in Washington. She and Meg shared everything - so how was there no warning? But when Cody travels to Meg's college town to pack up the belongings left behind, she discovers that there's a lot that Meg never told her. When her best friend Meg drinks a bottle of industrial-strength cleaner alone in a motel room, Cody is understandably shocked and devastated. The basic plot from Amazon: Cody and Meg were inseparable. ![]()
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