Deadly Animals: A Novel Children's Books on Emotions & Feelings Lawhon works storytelling magic with

Lawhon works storytelling magic with a real-life heroine

an aunt is pushed into caring for her niece and nephew at age fifteen once their family is shattered by the opioid epidemic

we get a glimpse into their lives

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Bodie begins to wonder if she wasn’t as much of an outsider at Granby as she’d thought—if

Deadly Animals: A Novel Children's Books on Emotions & Feelings Lawhon works storytelling magic withFinding a dead body is not normal. But Ava is not a normal teenager. In this chillingly beautiful mystery, only the obsessive spirit of youth can save a desperate town from the savagery within. Ava Bonney is a compassionate and studious fourteen year old girl with a dark secret: She has an obsessive interest in the macabre and is fascinated by how dead animals decompose. The highway she lives by regularly offers up gifts of roadkill, and in the dead