![]() ![]() Cloudcuckoolander: Mick had some pretty bizarre thought processes.Phoebe comments to herself that God would probably rather hear people laughing in church than the crying and begging for forgiveness he hears so often. Cheerful Funeral: At Mick's funeral, people take turns telling stories about funny things he did when he was alive.While Mick's death itself is taken completely seriously by the narrative, he was a huge goofball when he was alive, and a lot of the book is about Phoebe remembering the hilarious things he did. Berserk Button: Phoebe understandably loses it and reads one of her classmates the riot act when he casually refers to her as "the sister of the dead kid".All Deaths Final: Phoebe is forced to come to this when Mick dies.Specifically, how much the lives of herself and her parents have changed since his tragic death in a bicycling accident. Crying yet?Written in 1995 by Barbara Park, the story is told from the point of view of a girl named Phoebe Harte about her brother Mick. ![]()
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