Smiles to Go
Jerry Spinelli
 It is about a ninth grader name Will (short for William), who experiences love,frustration,and a tragedy. He has a famous (to him) twelve step plan: birth, grow up, school, college, career, wife, kids, house, car, retire, death, heaven. But then he learned that protons -the one thing he was sure of- could die. His best friend BT has just gone down a tremendous hill on his skateboard, which brings impact to his reputation. He also has very young sister going into the 1st grade. Towards the end of the book she is influenced by her brother's friend BT. She decides to go down the same tremendous hill he went down on her brother's skateboard, after not being allowed to go to her brother's chess match. Something terrible has happened to his sister.