num_pages: 144
description: Brent Bishop longs to have the popular Brianna strolling around school on his arm. But when she rejects him at a classmate's party, Brent's hopes for popularity are instantly shattered. Devastated, he tries to destroy himself in a car crash... but instead kills an innocent girl named Lea.Instead of sending him to jail, Lea's parents challenge Brent to create four whirligigs modeled on a picture of Lea and position them at the four corners of the United States. Lea's mother hopes that the whirligig that used to delight Lea will be a fitting memorial for her precious daughter. She sends Brent off with an unlimited bus ticket, a few pieces of wood, and the tools to memorialize Lea. On his mission to preserve his victim's memory, Brent ultimately rediscovers his own love of life.
language: English
title: Whirligig
titlecomplete: Whirligig
genres: Fiction, Contemporary, Coming Of Age, Teen, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult, Read For School, Death, Middle Grade, School
ratings_count: 8329
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: California Young Readers Medal
category: Young Adult
publisher: Laurel Leaf