What About Will by Ellen Hopkins

What About Will by Ellen Hopkins
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book tore me up: I ached for 12 yr old Trace and the life he once enjoyed with his 17 yr old brother, Will, before he suffers a brain injury during a football game which drastically changes Will. Trace's mom ends up leaving, his father is seeing someone new, and Will is scaring Trace--he steals his baseball glove signed by Victor Sanchez, is hanging out with truly scar people, and he is taking drugs and maybe selling too. As Trace tries to be true to Will, he alerts his mother and father and even a neighbor and they all chalk it up to being a teenager---but Trace is really worried. Ellen Hopkins' novels in verse are real, aching, raw and deal with timely issues. This book is no different--the football injury in essence ends Will's life-a traumatic brain injury giving him awful headaches, he can't smile right, and he has uncontrollable rage. This is a must read for kids and adults! Young adults will enjoy this Hopkins book too!

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