Pub Date: May 21, 2024
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Price on Product
Target Age Group: 13 to 17
Physical Info: 1.50" H x 8.50" L x 5.70" W ( 0.30 lbs) 176 pages
BISAC Categories:
Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes | Cutting and SelfHarm | Mental Illness
Description: While confined to a mental hospital, thirteen-year-old Callie slowly comes to understand some of the reasons behind her self-mutilation, and gradually starts to get better.
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Praise for Cut:
An ALA Quick Pick for YA Readers
A NYPL Book for the Teen Age
* "First-timer McCormick tackles a side of mental illness that is rarely seen in young-adult literature in a believable and sensitive manner... A thoughtful look at teenage mental illness and recovery." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"Like E. L. Konigsburg's Silent to the Bone and Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak, Cut is another authentic-sounding novel in which elective mutism plays a part, this time with humor making the pain of adolescence gone awry more bearable...an exceptional character study of a young woman and her hospital mates who struggle with demons so severe that only their bodies can confess." --Booklist