I Started Crying Monday

Laurene Kelly's first young adult novel introduces us to fourteen-year-old Julie, who is struggling with a terrible home life, but could never imagine the horror that is about to destroy her family forever.  She dreams of a new life, away from her abusive father, but when her mother doesn't arrive to meet Julie and her brother Toby after school as planned, her hopes are shattered.  She is told there was an accident, but something more is wrong...