What About Will

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkins
comes a new heartbreakingly tender middle grade novel-in-verse about the bonds
between two brothers and the love they share.

Twelve-year-old Trace Reynolds has always looked up to his
brother, mostly because Will, who’s five years older, has never looked down on
him. It was Will who taught Trace to ride a bike, would watch sports on TV with
him, and cheer him on at Little League. But when Will was knocked out cold
during a football game, resulting in a brain injury–everything changed. Now,
seventeen months later, their family is still living under the weight of “the
incident,” that left Will with a facial tic, depression, and an anger he cannot
always control, culminating in their parents’ divorce. Afraid of further
fracturing his family, Trace begins to cover for Will who, struggling with
addiction to pain medication, becomes someone Trace doesn’t recognize. But when
the brother he loves so much becomes more and more withdrawn, and escalates to
stealing money and ditching school, Trace realizes some secrets cannot be kept
if we ever hope to heal.