03322cam a2200793 i 4500 607026857 TxAuBib 20221012120000.0 220511s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021279287 9780544084773 hardcover 0544084772 hardcover TxAuBib rda Schmidt, Gary D, author. Just like that / Gary D. Schmidt. New York, New York : Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2021] ©2021. 387 pages ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier With insight and a light touch, best-selling, Newbery Honor-winning author Gary D. Schmidt tells two poignant, linked stories: that of a grieving girl and a boy trying to escape his violent past. Following the death of her closest friend in summer 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski goes off to St. Elene's Preparatory Academy for Girls, where she struggles to navigate the venerable boarding school's traditions and a social structure heavily weighted toward students from wealthy backgrounds. In a parallel story, Matt Coffin has wound up on the Maine coast near St. Elene's with a pillowcase full of money lifted from the leader of a criminal gang, fearing the gang's relentless, destructive pursuit. Both young people gradually dispel their loneliness, finding a way to be hopeful and also finding each other. Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 5.9 15.0 Accelerated Reader Quiz #510307. 20221012. 2000-2099. Grief Juvenile fiction. Grief Fiction. Death Juvenile fiction. Death Fiction. Preparatory schools Juvenile fiction. Preparatory schools Fiction. Gangs Juvenile fiction. Gangs Fiction. Theft Juvenile fiction. Theft Fiction. Social classes Juvenile fiction. Social classes Fiction. Friendship Juvenile fiction. Loneliness Juvenile fiction. Loneliness Fiction. Teenagers Juvenile fiction. Teenagers Fiction. Young adult fiction, American 21st century. Friendship Fiction. JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Friendship. JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Death, Grief, Bereavement. JUVENILE FICTION / School & Education. Young adult fiction, American. Death. Friendship. Gangs. Grief. Loneliness. Preparatory schools. Social classes. Teenagers. Theft. Bildungsromans Juvenile fiction. School stories. Maine Juvenile fiction. Maine Fiction. Maine. Juvenile Fiction. Bildungsromans. Fiction. Juvenile works. Bildungsromans. Fiction.