Who Killed Christopher Goodman?: Based on a True Crime

Inspired by a tragic true event in his past, Allan Wolf examines the circumstances of one boy's inexplicable murder and the fateful summer leading up to it.

Everybody likes Chris Goodman. Sure, he's a little odd. He wears those funny bell-bottoms and he really likes the word ennui and he shakes your hand when he meets you, but he's also the kind of guy who's always up for a good time, always happy to lend a hand. Everybody likes Chris Goodman, which makes it especially shocking when he's murdered. Here, in a stunning multi-voiced narrative -- including the perspective of the fifteen-year-old killer -- and based on a true and terrible crime that occurred when he was in high school, author Allan Wolf sets out to answer the first question that comes to mind in moments of unthinkable tragedy: how could a thing like this happen?

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: 03/14/2017
ISBN: 9780763656133
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.56h x 5.88w x 1.00d

Review Citations: School Library Journal 01/01/2017 pg. 106
Booklist 01/01/2017 pg. 90
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2017
Voice of Youth Advocates 02/01/2017 - Recommended - Hard To Beat
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 03/01/2017
Horn Book Magazine 03/01/2017 pg. 100
Publishers Weekly 03/06/2017

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 195248 / Who Killed Christopher Goodman? Based on a True Crime
Reading Level: 4.5 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 6