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Forgive me, Leonard Peacock : a novel by Matthew Quick is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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★'Brilliant.... The masterful writing takes readers inside Leonard's tormented mind, enabling a compassionate response to him and to others dealing with trauma.'—School Library Journal, starred reviewFrom New York Times bestselling author Matthew Quick comes an intensely compassionate and important book about a boy who brings a gun to school, and the people and experiences that force him to look beyond his pain. In addition to the P-38, there are four gifts, one for each of my friends. I want to say good-bye to them properly. I want to give them each something to remember me by. To let them know I really cared about them and I'm sorry I couldn't be more than I was—that I couldn't stick around—and that what's going to happen today isn't their fault. Today is Leonard Peacock's birthday. It is also the day he hides a gun in his backpack. Because today is the day he will kill his former best friend, and then himself, with his grandfather's P-38 pistol. But first he must say good-bye to the four people who matter most to him: his Humphrey Bogart-obsessed next-door neighbor, Walt; his classmate, Baback, a violin virtuoso; Lauren, the Christian homeschooler he has a crush on; and Herr Sil

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Matthew Quick
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published
2013
Language
EN
ISBN
9780316246316
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Children'S, Young Adult
Rating
3.93 / 5 (28,678 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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