What if you accidentally did a terrible thing and had the chance to get away with it? Would you? Could you? That’s the brutal situation for a 15-year-old boy named Webb in “Nobody Else Has To Know.” The talented runner is on the brink of becoming a real star when tragedy strikes: His grandpa is letting him practice his driving when Webb hits a little girl on a bike, leaving her badly injured. Grandpa takes the blame and says he was driving; after all, he tells his grandson, Webb has a wonderful life ahead of him and there’s no need to mess that up. This wrenching, suspenseful book looks at what can happen when two people share a terrible secret. It also drives home the questions: Could you live with such a lie if you honestly meant to do no harm? And what kind of life would it be?
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“Nobody Else Has To Know” by Ingrid Tomey (Laurel-Leaf Books) is $5 in paperback.