Epilogue - "The Backwater River flows through our town. I've lived with that river for thirteen years, ever since I was born. I've seen it run gently and I've seen it angry and hateful. My parents taught me to respect the Blackwater. I always knew how terrible it could be, but I didn't know how, one summer, it would change my life. I didn't know there would be deaths, and disgrace and misery, and that the river would be to blame for it all. Or am I blaming the Blackwater when I should be blaming myself?"
A dark, but appropiate for 6th graders, novel from Eve Bunting begins with an ominous opening that draws readers into Brodie's troubled summer where he has to decide whether to tell the truth - his involvement in two deaths - or stay silent and be known as the hero....The choice is made harder because someone else saw what happened and they want Brodie to tell.
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