I have to think for a while about how to rate this book. I am definitely adding it to my "most disturbing" list. The plot of this book involves a boy who can remember everything he's ever heard. He's clever and mostly happy and loving, but he's trapped. Trapped inside his body, unable to exercise...
Three years after his father's suicide, Jordan is a self-described zombie. With no friends and no interests, Jordan has made sure he is invisible and alone because it's easier to get by that way. But then salvation comes in the most unlikely form. It's gorgeous, and it's sexy-a 1976 Corvette! Dra...
In baseball, fielding your position at third base is tricky—that's why third is called "the hot corner." You have to be aware that anything can happen at any time. This should be the best year of Scott's life: It's his last season of varsity ball, his team is about to go to the city championship...
How sick is this: I'm the major jock-stud in high school, but my brother has the brain of a badminton birdie and a body to match. I've got everything and he's got nothing. I'm a three-year, three-sport letterman and Shawn can't even stand up! Like I said, sick, huh?It's hard to be a brother to so...
She had dinner with us, and then she went off to bed. She comes out of her room this morning ready to go to what she calls “schoo,” dressed in a Winnie the Pooh sweatshirt, bright yellow pants with a fire-engine-red cowboy hat perched on her head, maybe five sizes too small. Paul smiles at her an...
I try to speak slowly and clearly, and I struggle to remember all the right words in English. “Jesus,” the doctor says, “you really been through it, haven’t ya?” I nod. He tells me about San Pedro Sula and the other parts of Honduras that he has seen: towns under water, thousands of people waitin...
Emily Wahhsted to Dr. Cal Curtis: Zach says he took the rifle and went out and sat on a deck chair. As he sat there, he says, he wondered what I might think when I came home and found his body. I guess some tiny part of him realized that I “might be upset.” The blood on Alan’s face looks kinda li...