Four teenage boys with too much beer and the young driver, Andy Jackson, loses control of the car and crashes into the wall. Robbie Washington is dead. How do you handle grief? Who can you talk to? Who can you turn to for help? Andy tries to talk to his girlfriend, Keisha. He talks to a black shrink. He talks to his coach. Will it be enough to give him hope and allow him to forgive himself? A community struggles after a valuable young life is lost.
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Andy tackles his guilt and grief in the first book of Sharon M. Draper’s award-winning Hazelwood High trilogy.
Tigers don’t cry—or do they? After the death of his longtime friend and fellow Hazelwood Tiger in a car accident, Andy, the driver, blames himself and cannot get past his guilt and pain. While his other friends have managed to work through their grief and move on, Andy allows death to become the focus of his life. In the months that follow the accident, the lives of Andy and his friends are traced through a series of letters, articles, homework assignments, and dialogues, and it becomes clear that Tigers do indeed need to cry.---from the publisher
192 pages 978-1442489134 Ages 12 and up
