The Day I Killed James (13 page)

Catherine Ryan Hyde is the author of two other young adult novels:
Becoming Chloe,
which
Kirkus Reviews
called “vibrant and heartbreaking” in a starred review, and
The Year of My Miraculous Reappearance,
which the
Philadelphia Inquirer
praised as “very close to perfect.” She is also the author of several adult novels, including the national bestseller
Pay It Forward, Love in the Present Tense, Electric God, Chasing Windmills,
and
Walter’s Purple Heart.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hyde, Catherine Ryan.

The day I killed James / Catherine Ryan Hyde. — 1st ed.

p. cm.

Summary: Seventeen-year-old Theresa tries to get past the guilt she feels over the death of a neighbor who loved her, first through a journal her therapist tells her to keep, then by transforming herself and starting a new life.

[1. Guilt—Fiction. 2. Death—Fiction. 3. Love—Fiction. 4. Self-actualization (Psychology)—Fiction. 5. Psychotherapy—Fiction. 6. Diaries—Fiction. 7. California—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.H96759Day 2008

[Fic]—dc22

2007049026

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