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Some things you can't Ignore (Please Ignore Vera Dietz)

King, A. (2010) Please Ignore Vera Diets . New York, NY: Random House Spoilers!   Vera’s best friend just died.   Except that he’s not her best friend anymore.   She loved him. She hated him.   It’s all pretty complicated.   They say his dead body was just thrown onto his lawn.   They say that he started the fire that killed all those animals.   They say a lot of things, but Vera knows not everything they say is true. Charlie Kahn and Vera were neighbors.   They’ve been best friends since they were children.   Charlie had a sort of rebellious air about him that Vera adored.   He always did his own thing, even if it was weird.   She knew that his father was abusive to his mother, but they kind of just ignored it.   Instead they would hang out in the woods between their houses or go up to the pagoda.   When they were twelve Vera helped Charlie build a tree house in the woods.   They kept improving it, and...