I needed something thin to finish my goodreafs challenge and found this book my little brother had to read for school. It's a gut-wrenching story about a boy who lives in a tree and tells the other children in his class that nothing has meaning in life. They try to prove him wrong by collecting a mountain of things with special meaning. Their quest turns ugly as each request gets more daring and morbid as the next one. The end is heartbreaking. Definitely not an easy book, but I would be curious how this is talked about in class.