A review by kamckim
We'll Fly Away by Bryan Bliss

5.0

No spoilers here, but after you've read the book, go back and look at the cover. It's heart-breaking. This story about two kids who struggle against the odds is painfully real and will appeal to the social worker in all of us. The friendship between Luke and Toby is touching in its loyalty and it's interesting to watch it change when they both meet "a girl". The book is very carefully crafted in narratives from the omniscient point of view, sometimes just about Luke, sometimes just about Toby, sometimes about them both. It's interspersed with letters written in the present. Most of the letters hook to the chapters through interesting turns of phrase and themes. This is on a lot of YA Best Lists, and I do hope it wins something. It's award-worthy.