Boo
Subtitle: a novel
By: Neil Smith
Series: Vintage contemporaries original; Vintage contemporaries original
Publisher: Vintage Contemporaries/Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780804171366
Subjects: Murder victims; Boys; Death; Male friendship; School shootings; Fiction
Description: "One minute, Oliver 'Boo' Dalrymple is next to his locker at school reciting the periodic table from heart; the next he finds himself in 'Town,' an afterlife exclusively for thirteen-year-olds. As Boo works to acclimate himself to his new home, another boy from his hometown--Johnny--appears, seemingly a victim of the same school shooter. A social outcast back in America, Boo quickly finds the friendship and joy that he never knew in life, but as he and Johnny search for the identity of their mysterious murderer, possibly now a fellow resident of Town, they uncover a truth that will have profound repercussions for them both"--