What Happened to Goodbye
Publisher
Penguin Group
Publication Year
2011
ISBN
9780142423837
Pages
402 pages
Genre
realism
Format
novel
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
Following her parents' bitter divorce as she and her father move from town to town, seventeen-year-old Mclean reinvents herself at each school she attends until she is no longer sure she knows who she is or where she belongs.
Grade Level
6-8; 9-12
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Divorce; Step parent; divorced parents; separate homes; step father
Main Character
girl
Race/Ethnicities
White
Family Formation
divorced parents
Awards
Arkansas Teen Book Award, 2013, Winner, Grade 7 up
Goodreads Choice Award, 2011, Nominee, Young Adult Fiction
Keywords
identity; basketball; restaurants; moving; divorce; cheating
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Dessen, Sarah, "What Happened to Goodbye" (2011). Diverse Families. 1160.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/1160