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If you're reading this

Statement of responsibility

Trent Reedy

Title variation

If you are reading this

Creator

• Reedy, Trent,
• trueReedy, Trent

Author

• Reedy, Trent,

Subject

• Family life -- Iowa -- Fiction
• trueFathers -- Death
• trueFirst person narratives
• trueFootball
• High schools -- Fiction
• High schools -- Juvenile fiction
• trueIowa
• Iowa -- Fiction
• Iowa -- Juvenile fiction
• trueLast letters before death
• Last letters before death -- Juvenile fiction
• trueLetters
• Letters -- Fiction
• trueMothers and sons
• Mothers and sons -- Juvenile fiction
• trueRealistic fiction
• Schools -- Fiction
• trueSingle-parent families
• trueSixteen-year-old boys
• Soldiers -- Family relationships -- Juvenile fiction
• Soldiers -- Fiction
• trueTeenage boys
• Young adult fiction
• Mothers and sons -- Fiction
• trueChildren of military personnel
• Families -- Iowa -- Juvenile fiction

Genre

• trueRealistic fiction
• Young adult fiction
• Fiction
• trueFirst person narratives
• Juvenile fiction

Language

eng

Summary

For a responsible sixteen-year-old, Michael Wilson has a lot of problems--his father was killed in Afghanistan in 2005, his overworked and overprotective mother will not talk about their situation, and does not want him playing football, and he has suddenly started to receive letters that his father wrote before his death

Storyline

• trueCharacter-driven

Tone

• trueMoving

Character

• trueAuthentic

Awards note

• Young Hoosier Book 6-8 Award nominee, 2016-2017.
• Young Hoosier Book Middle Grades Award nominee, 2016-2017.

Cataloging source

NJQ/DLC

Dewey number

• [Fic]
• 813.6

Index

no index present

Intended audience

• 700
• 700L

Intended audience source

• Lexile
• Lexile

Interest level

MG+

LC call number

PZ7.R25423

LC item number

If 2014

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700

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 6
• 8

Reading level

4.6

Study program name

Accelerated Reader AR

Target audience

adolescent