Chinese Handcuffs by Chris Crutcher, Author Greenwillow Books $17.99 (202p) ISBN 978-0-688-08345-8. Chris Crutcher, Author Greenwillow Books $17.99 (202p) ISBN 978-0-688-08345-8 Dillon, 16, is a winning triathlete trying to live with the fact of his older brother Preston's suicide, which he witnessed.
Preston left behind a girlfriend (and a baby) whom Dillon has always loved; he is also increasingly interested in Jennifer, the top girls' basketball player, a lifelong victim of sexual abuse by her father and later her stepfather. Carved out in straight narratives, flashbacks and letters to Preston recapping events, Crutcher, author of the well-received The Crazy Horse Electric Game , Running Loose and Stotan! Girls in Trucks by Katie Crouch. MY FATHER'S SCAR by Michael Cart. Touched by Scott Campbell. Teenreads. Swati Avasthi’s debut, SPLIT, begins where other novels might end: with a teenage runaway who has finally escaped his abusive father’s fists.
Sixteen-year-old Jace Witherspoon seemingly has it all: looks, charm, athletic prowess, and a popular girlfriend to boot. But the dark secret he has been hiding is that inside the walls of their beautiful home in their affluent Chicago neighborhood, Jace’s father --- a respected judge, no less --- has been physically and emotionally abusing Jace and his mother for years. At 16, Jace has finally done the unthinkable: he has hit his father back. Now, there is nowhere for Jace to go except to leave home in search of his estranged older brother, Christian. The only help he has are an old envelope with an address in Albuquerque, New Mexico scribbled on it and $3.84 in his pockets.
When Jace finds Christian, they must work as a team to piece together and understand their shared history. Slave: My True Story by Mende Nazer. Book Review of Falling Leaves: Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter. Though called a memoir, Adeline Yeh Ma’s Falling Leaves is really a historical account of the past 100 years in China craftily written through the eyes of a young girl who grows to become an accomplished woman and characters that bring history to life.
In a short book, the reader is given a breadth of Chinese culture, economy and family. Each one of her characters represents a character from Cinderella’s world. But this princess lives a very different life, becoming her own Prince Charming in the end. Ma’s memoir breaks away from traditional biographies so that her story begins before she was born. The detailed background she displays to the reader about her father, grandfather, and grandaunt creates that illusion of comfort that she will be afford when she born. Ma’s strength lies in the beautiful convergence of history and life, so as the two become one. Ma’s best quality is that she makes her memoir access to all by not letting her story get the way of reality. Why you need to read Broken: A story of abuse and survival. It was 1982, when I got that letter.
If only she hadn’t waited so long to tell us what was going on. If only I had known it would be our last conversation, I never would’ve hung up. If only she had let us in. If only. We would one day get our day in court. Our lives were changed forever. They were part of your life, they’ll always be part of your life. Now what? I remember the day we were told in our writing class to write what was scary. She was our sister. We were after closure. We never got it. She waited too long…Please don’t wait Sometimes we’ve wondered how things could have been different if she hadn’t waited so long to tell us what was going on. Book by Shyima Hall, Lisa Wysocky. Hidden Girl CHAPTER ONE Everyone has a defining moment in his or her life.
For some it is the day they get married or have a child. For others it comes when they finally reach a sought-after goal. My life, however, drastically changed course the day my parents sold me into slavery. Damaged: The Heartbreaking True Story of a Forgotten Child - Cathy Glass. The Sunday Times and New York Times Bestseller.
Although Jodie is only eight years old, she is violent, aggressive, and has already been through numerous foster families. Her last hope is Cathy Glass… Cathy, an experienced foster carer, is pressured into taking Jodie as a new placement. Jodie's challenging behaviour has seen off five carers in four months but Cathy decides to take her on to protect her from being placed in an institution. Jaycee Dugard's 'A Stolen Life': Book Review. Two Against the World. When I began reading contemporary fiction in high school, I remember feeling that each book was an absolute revelation.
Whether I was reading Michael Crichton or Amy Tan or Tom Robbins, there had never been anything like it before in my life. The novel’s novelty passes, of course. I’m 35 now. I’ve read a dozen “we brought back the dinosaurs and they are mad” books. I’ve seen the conventions, and I’ve seen them interrogated. But I have never seen anything quite like “Eleanor & Park.” Eleanor is a “big girl” with bright red hair (kids on the bus call her Big Red, and she describes herself as resembling a barmaid) who has just returned to her home in Omaha, after being kicked out for a year and forced to stay with acquaintances. Park is a half-Korean kid who’s passably popular but separated from the larger social order of his school both by his race and by his passion for comic books and good music.