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Swallowing Stones

Joyce McDonald

Paperback | Pages: 272 pages

Rating: 3.56 | 2185 Users | 325 Reviews

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Original Title:	Swallowing Stones
ISBN:	0440226724 (ISBN13: 9780440226727)
Edition Language:	English

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It begins with a free and joyful act--but from then on, Michael finds it impossible even to remember what it felt like to be free and joyful. When he fires his new rifle into the air on his seventeenth birthday, he never imagines that the bullet will end up killing someone. But a mile away, a man is killed by that bullet as he innocently repairs his roof. And Michael keeps desperately silent while he watches his world crumble.

Meanwhile Jenna, the dead man's daughter, copes with desperation of her own.  Through her grief, she tries to understand why she no longer feels comfortable with her boyfriend and why a near stranger named Michael keeps appearing in her dreams.

Suspenseful and powerfully moving, this is the unforgettable story of an accidental crime and its haunting web of repercussions.

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Title	:	Swallowing Stones
Author	:	Joyce McDonald
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 272 pages
Published	:	July 13th 1999 by Laurel Leaf (first published 1997)
Categories	:	Young Adult. Fiction. Realistic Fiction. Academic. School. Contemporary. Teen

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Ratings: 3.56 From 2185 Users | 325 Reviews

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This is one of those books that I just didn't want to put down once I started reading. The storyline for this book was different than anything I've ever read. Michael shoots a gun up into the air and accidentally kills someone from over a mile away. No one, except for Michael and his best friend, knows who did pulled the trigger. You see Michael's internal struggle throughout the novel and his inability to find the right way to tell the daughter of the man who was struck by his bullet that he's

Good, but I was reading rather quickly and didn't really get drawn too far into it. The "dream" scenes with the "Ghost Tree" were vaguely annoying because it sort of steps beyond the realm of realism but are probably necessary to deal with these types of deep feelings, similar to how fantasy can deal with issues of good and evil that would be cheesy in contemporary realistic fiction. The characters felt real and I thought that the realistic part of the ending was nicely and sensitively done.

Very thinky problem novel. Main character shoots his gun into the air and accidentally kills a man fixing his roof a mile or two away. We get the PoV of the shooter and of the victim's daughter. Should he confess? Should he continue to cover it up? The main characters think and think and think and think.Not my kind of book at all, but it's a good choice for book clubs, not only because kids will have a lot to talk about, but because it is exactly the right kind of book for some kids.

Starting with a murder on the first page and revealing the killer on the second may not be conventional, but Joyce McDonald made in work in Swallowing Stones. It tells a story from two drastically different perspectives, each their own protagonist and partially the antagonist of the other. Jenna, who watched her father die, wants justice. Michael, who shot his new gun into the air a single time and accidentally killed a man, want the whole thing to blow over without getting caught. Throughout

"Swallowing Stones" by Joyce McDonald is a mysterious realistic-fiction novel with just the right amount of suspense that makes you want to keep reading until the very end. In this book, the characters are learning all about life lessons and facing reality. This novel shows you how it can sometimes be hard to make the right decisions when you know they can come with difficult consequences. I recommend this book to any teenager who is looking for an easy mystery read.

Michael MacKenzie and a friend decide to shoot of a rifle on the Fourth of July at a family party; he had no idea of the consequences that would follow as a result of their actions. The bullet that they fired traveled through the air hit a man named Charlie Ward several blocks away in the head as he was fixing his roof. Michael finally realizes that he fired the shot that killed a man and he becomes a suspect in the case. So he decides to bury the rifle in his back yard under a pile of wood.

Joyce Mcdonald did a great job with creating an immense amount suspense in this book. It starts off with teenager Micheal shooting a rifle on his rooftop as a new years celebrations. The most unexpeccted thing hppened after this. He ended up killing a man from a mile away. As soon a he heard the news, hes been trying ever since to cover up all his tracks so no one would find out it was him. However, he stills feels alot of guilt, as shown when a kid in his school said it was his friend who shot