Many children have difficulty with apology.
Three recently released YA novels have much to say about sorries while two others offer adults help in training children to make better decisions. Michael MacKenzie will never forget his sixteenth birthday. He celebrates the event with a wild Fourth of July party and has gotten a Winchester from his grandfather. Feeling the festive mood, he takes the gun into the woods, shoots it, and the bullet flies into the body of man repairing his roof blocks away, killing him. Readers follow Michael's months of painful consequences and the intolerable changes that finally lead him to confession.