Eric Calhoune has
been best friends with Sarah Byrnes since middle school. They are complete opposites but they do share
something. They were outcasts at their
Jr. High. Eric is obese and Sarah’s face is burned. Then everything changed when Eric joined the
swim team. He wanted to lose some of his
flab. Sarah’s problem could not be
changed. She had an accident when she
was little and it left her with burn scars on her face. Now in high school, Sarah needs Eric more
than ever. She has been admitted to a psychiatric
hospital because she has been become mute.
He goes and visits her daily at the hospital and then discovers that she
was faking it, so that she could escape her abusive father. He realizes that it
was her father that caused her burns. Sarah
thinks that her mother can be found then everything would be better but she
discovers that it isn’t as easy as she thought.
In the end, Sarah does learn the truth about her burns and a new life
for Sarah.
This realistic fiction deals with bullying and violence at
home and at school. Both Sarah and Eric
have to deal with bullies and they learn to overcome it because of their
friendship. I feel that this is a great
read for high school students because they are dealing with self-image issues
at this stage of their lives. It also
shows that have a good support system of friends is a good thing to have at any
age.
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