# Say Goodnight, Gracie

**Author:** Julie Reece Deaver
**Grade range:** Grades 9–12
**Age range:** 14–17
**First published:** 1988
**Page count:** 214
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780064470070`
**ISBN-10:** `0064470075`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/say-goodnight-gracie
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

When a car accident kills her best friend Jimmy, with whom she has shared everything from childhood escapades to breaking into the professional theater scene in Chicago, seventeen-year-old Morgan must find her own way of coping with his death.

## Themes

- actors and actresses
- death
- friendship
- actresses

## Where this book is assigned

### Virginia Readers' Choice

- **recommended** · 9th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 1990-1991 winner (High)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 10th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 1990-1991 winner (High)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 11th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 1990-1991 winner (High)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 12th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 1990-1991 winner (High)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)

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