Vera loved her best friend Charlie since they were four years old and kept his darkest secrets. So why did he betray her and wind up dead? A funny and clever look at the life and death of a teenage friendship as told in a realistic timeline, with flashbacks, to give the reader a broad sense of where each character is coming from. "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" is a story about a girl with a strange history and her best friend Charlie with an even stranger history. The circumstances surrounding his death are more than Vera can bear. Yet, she is the only one that can clear his name. Will she? Can she? Michael L. Printz Honor Book