MICK HARTE WAS HERE

by Barbara Park (5th+)

When her brother, Mick, is killed, Phoebe Harte’s world is suddenly turned upside down. How could someone like Mick die?!? Mick was one of the neatest kids you’d ever want to meet—the kid who freaked his mom out by putting a ceramic eye in a defrosted chicken; who went trick-or-treating as Thomas Crapper, the inventor of the modern-day flush toilet; who did a wild solo dance in front of the whole school because “the music got in his pants.” And the kid who, if he’d only worn his bicycle helmet, would still be alive now… Read Mick Harte Was Here by Barbara Park.