# Blackwater

**Author:** Eve Bunting
**Grade range:** Grades 6–8
**Age range:** 11–13
**First published:** 1999
**Page count:** 146
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780756901011`
**ISBN-10:** `0756901014`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/blackwater
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

When a boy and girl are drowned in the Blackwater River, thirteen-year-old Brodie must decide whether to confess that he may have caused the accident.

## Themes

- drowning
- death
- guilt
- accelerated reader

## Where this book is assigned

### Virginia Readers' Choice

- **recommended** · 6th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 2001-2002 winner (Middle)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 2001-2002 winner (Middle)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 2001-2002 winner (Middle)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)

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