This grittily provocative debut explores the horrors of self-harm and the healing power of artistic expression. Like most issue books, this is not an easy read, but it's poignant and transcendent as Charlie breaks more and more before piecing herself back together. Through intense, diarylike chapters chronicling Charlie's journey, the author captures the brutal and heartbreaking way "girls who write their pain on their bodies" scar and mar themselves, either succumbing or surviving. Feeling rejected, Charlie, an artist, is drawn into a destructive new relationship with her sexy older co-worker, a "semifamous" local musician who's obviously a junkie alcoholic. But things don't go as planned in the Arizona desert, because sweet Mikey just wants to be friends. After spending time in treatment with other young women like her-who cut, burn, poke, and otherwise hurt themselves-Charlie is released and takes a bus from the Twin Cities to Tucson to be closer to Mikey, a boy she "like-likes" but who had pined for Ellis instead. Seventeen-year-old Charlie Davis, a white girl living on the margins, thinks she has little reason to live: her father drowned himself her bereft and abusive mother kicked her out her best friend, Ellis, is nearly brain dead after cutting too deeply and she's gone through unspeakable experiences living on the street. 12 & up)Īfter surviving a suicide attempt, a fragile teen isn't sure she can endure without cutting herself. A fascinating read penned by an expert hand. Everlost is turning into Everwild, right before readers’ eyes. Each character grows, developing new aspects of their personality and finding out just how far they’ll go to achieve their aims, whether anyone else likes it or not. In this sequel to Everlost (2006), Shusterman has once again created a world that is beautiful and imaginative yet increasingly eerie and grim. Allie can move back to the real world by hijacking the body of a living being, but she can’t move on into the light, even if she wanted to.
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Nick, the Chocolate Ogre, has already discovered how to send these lost souls into the light and is determined to fight Mary before he turns completely into a chocolate statue. Mary seeks to trap children there forever as her loyal-but unwitting-followers. It’s a world between, where lost souls search for safety, for permanence or just a feeling of belonging (not unlike real life). Everlost is where children go when they die, if they miss their chance to go into the light or are just not ready to transition into the hereafter.
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