When her coach tells her that the person for whom the ambulance was coming was Mick, Phoebe realizes she somehow already knows this. Phoebe is in soccer practice when she hears the ambulance sirens coming to the school. The siblings had a fight that morning and never reconciled their disagreement. Phoebe includes in her record the events of the day of Mick's accident.
She does not want to present a story in which the reader will get to like her brother, then learn at the end that he has died. Phoebe begins her story by telling her readers that her brother is dead. At the conclusion of the novel, Phoebe uses a stick to carve into a fresh concrete sidewalk at her school the words "MICK HARTE WAS HERE." These words are Phoebe's lasting tribute to her beloved brother. Phoebe tells the story of the aftermath of Mick's death in a way that is both sarcastically humorous and heart wrenching. The story is told from the viewpoint of Mick Harte's sister, Phoebe. The novel Mick Harte was Here by Barbara Park tells the story of a family that must come to terms with the death of one of its members in a bicycle accident.
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