Johnny Kellock Died Today

By 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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Release date: Jan 9, 2018
• ISBN: 9781443455916

Hadley Dyer

Hadley Dyer is the award-winning author of Here So Far Away and Johnny Kellock Died Today, among other books for children and young adults. She worked in the children’s book industry for more than twenty years. To learn more about her, visit her online at www.hadleydyer.com.

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Reviews for Johnny Kellock Died Today

[chiaro-281918 · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

This is, quite plainly, the worst book I have ever come by.I was required to read it for Red Maple in the 8th grade. I was hoping it would be a thought provoking book, with a nice story, and a plot twist of some sort.Well, it isn't. It is intensely boring. Johnny doesn't even die! There is nothing remotely interesting about this book. Some girl likes art and makes friends with some guy.The end.P.S. Don't read it.

[jensha_1 · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

did not like this book at all, set in 50s, girl and her misfit 'friend" try to dicover secret of missing cousin