“Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.”
Cut by Patricia McCormick (Push, 2002)
Genre: Problem Novel, Realistic Fiction
Honors: Abraham Lincoln Award Nominee (2005) [Honors Information found at Goodreads.com]
Review: After cuts were discovered across Callie's armsshe is taken to a young girl's treatment facility. Callie suffers through support groups with other girls who have eating disorereds, or drug problems, but no one that has a problem quite like Callie's until girl who is also a cutter shows up for treatment. Finally Callie decides to open herself up for help.
Opinion: Although this was one of the shortest books I read, it was also one of the most difficult to get through because I was very bored with the story. Although this is an important issue that is not faced hardly at all in other teen books I had trouble relating or even caring about the main character. But that doesn't mean that other teens wouldn't find it a good read, or that they might not relate to Callie.
Ideas: This is a good problem novel, a good real life novel, so anyone who is looking for that kind of book would like this. Obviously a teen who is afflicted with this same problem or has a friend or family member who hurts or cuts themselves then this might help them develop an understanding for what that person goes through. This would also go good in a display for problems novels. Reluctant readers might like it because it's a very short book.
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