Swallowing Stones Book Review
Swallowing Stones by Joyce McDonald follows Michael Mackenzie and Jenna Ward who both live in Briarwood New Jersey only a few blocks away from each other. On the 4th of July at Michael’s 17th birthday party, he gets a new Winchester rifle from his grandfather which he later takes into the woods with his best friend, Joe, and fires it into the air. A few blocks over a man, Jenna Wards father, is shot in the head by a flying bullet from the sky and dies right in front of his daughter. When Michael finds out about the death he denies that it could possibly be him since it was the 4th of July and many people were firing things into the air. But he soon makes a pact with Joe to never tell anyone so Michael could keep his perfect life. But as Jenna gets more and more determined to find the killer, Michael and Joe have to continue to lie and be secretive about what happened. He has to keep “Swallowing Stones”.