maybe Everything Will Be Different Here. Maybe I Should Drive Away And Never Come Back. Maybe My Brother Didn't Mean To. Maybe My Brother Was Right. Maybe I Can Get Someone To Have Sex With Me. Maybe No One Will Ever Love Me. Maybe I Should Be An Actor. Maybe I Shouldn't Pretend To Be Deaf.
maybe If I Mouth The Words No One Will Know I'm Not Singing. But Maybe Someone, Somehow, Will Hear Me Anyway.
brent Runyon Offers A Raw, Wrenching Novel Of A Boy On The Edge. It's A Powerful Story About Love And Loss And Death And Anger And The Near Impossibility For A Sixteen-year-old Boy To Both Understand How He Feels And To Make Himself Heard.
publishers Weekly
less Intense But Just As Candid As His Debut The Burn Journals, Runyon's Sensitively Wrought Novel Explores A High-school Student Coming To Terms With His Older Brother's Death. Through Brian's First-person Narrative, The Author Demonstrates How Brian's Life Has Been Rocked By The Tragedy, Beginning With His Move To A New House And School, Where No One Knows That His Family Has Suffered A Loss. The Protagonist's Attitude Towards Teachers, Classes And Students Reveals A Lack Of Emotional Commitment And Bottled-up Anger, Which Only Begins To Surface After He Joins A Theater Group And Lands A Part In A Play. Sean Does Not Speak Outwardly About His Grief (details About His Brother's Car Accident Are Not Revealed Until The End Of The Book), But Readers Will Sense His Emptiness At School And At Home, Where His Parents Continue Their Lives As Though Everything Were Normal. Sean's First Attempt To Confess His Loss (which Occurs Right After He Loses His Virginity) Causes Him More Pain Than Relief But Signifies A Turning Point In His Healing Process. Brian's Intimate, Often Humorous Narrative Exposes His Overactive Sexual Drive, His Impressions Of People, And His Day-to-day Frustrations, Which Will Quickly Draw Teens Into The Story And Entice Them To Read Between The Lines To Understand Brian's Underlying Sorrow. Ages 14-up. (oct.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
Categories:
- Teen & Young Adult
- Literature & Fiction
- Social & Family Issues
- Dating & Sex
- Social & Family Issues
- Literature & Fiction
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Author : Runyon, Brent
Language : English
Edition : Reprint
Published :2008-06-10
Number Of Pages : 196
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 0553495089
ISBN-13 : 9780553495089
Item weight : 0.2 lb
Dimensions : 0.6 in x 5.2 in x 7.8 in
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