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When You Were Here
Contributor(s): Whitney, Daisy (Author)

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ISBN: 0316209740 ISBN-13: 9780316209748
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

OUR PRICE: $15.30

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: June 2013
* Out of Print *

Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Fiction | Romance - Contemporary
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - New Experience
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Death, Grief, Bereavement

Dewey: FIC

LCCN: 2012031409

Age Level: 14-17

Grade Level: 9-12

Lexile Measure: 780 HL (High-Low)

Physical Information: 0.99" H x 5.73" W x 8.5" L (0.89 lbs) 272 pages

Themes:
- Topical - Death/Dying
- Topical - Friendship
- Cultural Region - Japanese
- Topical - Family

Features: Dust Cover, Ikids, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian

Awards: South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award, Nominee, Young Adult, 2015
Tayshas Reading, Commended, Young Adult, 2014

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2013
Publishers Weekly 05/06/2013
Voice of Youth Advocates 06/01/2013 - Recommended - Better Than Most
School Library Journal 08/01/2013 pg. 116
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 09/01/2013
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2013 pg. 136 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw

Accelerated Reader Info

Quiz #: 164672
Reading Level: 5.0 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 9.0

Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.

Publisher Description:
Filled with humor, raw emotion, a strong voice, and a brilliant dog named Sandy Koufax, When You Were Here explores the two most powerful forces known to man-death and love. Daisy Whitney brings her characters to life with a deft touch and resonating authenticity.
Danny's mother lost her five-year battle with cancer three weeks before his graduation-the one day that she was hanging on to see.
Now Danny is left alone, with only his memories, his dog, and his heart-breaking ex-girlfriend for company. He doesn't know how to figure out what to do with her estate, what to say for his Valedictorian speech, let alone how to live or be happy anymore.
When he gets a letter from his mom's property manager in Tokyo, where she had been going for treatment, it shows a side of a side of his mother he never knew. So, with no other sense of direction, Danny travels to Tokyo to connect with his mother's memory and make sense of her final months, which seemed filled with more joy than Danny ever knew. There, among the cherry blossoms, temples, and crowds, and with the help of an almost-but-definitely-not Harajuku girl, he begins to see how it may not have been ancient magic or mystical treatment that kept his mother going. Perhaps, the secret of how to live lies in how she died.

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