Johnny Kellock Died Today — Hadley Dyer

Winner of the CLA Children's Book of the Year Award and CBC Radio's Young Canada Reads

It's a long, hot Halifax summer in 1959 and twelve-year-old Rosalie Norman has a guilty secret. Her no-nonsense, authoritarian mother has broken her ankle -- and it's all Rosalie's fault. But news that Johnny, her teenaged cousin, has vanished pushes the accident from everyone's minds. As Rosalie and David -- her strange new neighbour -- search the city for Johnny, Rosalie discovers something about the love and the secrets that bind her family.