Michael L. Printz Honor Award-winning author of And We Stay Jenny Hubbard's powerful debut novel.
"One of the best young adult books I've read in years."--PAT CONROY
"Paper Covers Rock is dazzling in its intensity...
In 1982 Buncombe County, North Carolina, sixteen-year-old Alex Stromm writes of the aftermath of the accidental drowning of a friend, as his English teacher reaches out to him while he and a fellow boarding school student try to cover things up.