← Back to search
Cover of What Daddy Did

What Daddy Did

Neal Shusterman (1991)

SubgenreYA Fantasy
Age groupYA 12-17
Content ratingPG-13
Pages (Quick Read (<250))
Setting
CSM age14
Goodreads3.77
Buy on Amazon ↗Buy on Bookshop.org ↗Buy on Apple Books ↗

Content levels

ViolenceStrong
Sexual contentNone
LanguageMild

Trigger warnings

MurderDeath of ParentDomestic ViolenceGriefTraumaMental ManipulationAnxiety

Positive tags

Healing ArcSelf-DiscoverySurvivalHopeful Ending

Protagonist archetypes

Coming-of-Age ProtagonistTortured Protagonist

Tropes

Coming of AgeFound Family

Themes

Grief and LossFamily TraumaForgiveness and HealingIdentityComing of AgeMoral ComplexityIntergenerational Relationships

Synopsis

A fourteen-year-old living with his grandparents learns his father is to be released from prison after killing his mother and feels apprehensive about renewing the relationship. Based on true events.

Tags

Contemporary RealismIssue FictionPsychological DramaBased on True Events