copyright date: 1991 primarily marketed for: young adults (8 th grade up) If you like A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer and think What Daddy Did by Neal Shusterman is going to be another true story to indulge your desire to read about the human spirit’s will to endure, think again. What Daddy Did is so much more. So much bigger. I started reading it one night before falling asleep. Two hours later I still hadn’t closed the book and I don’t remember having taken a breath. I awoke the next morning still within the powerful grip of this story. What Daddy Did is the fictionalized true story of young boy who Shusterman calls Preston Scott. When Preston was only eleven years old, his Mom was shot in the back of the head and murdered by his father after marital struggles tore their family apart. Although the book tells about the events leading up to the murder as well as the moments during which the news un...
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