Aug 06, 2016 09:37 PM
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This is an amazing story from one of my favorite authors.
The subject matter is really hard to deal with, especially if you have teenagers or have ever been ridiculed at school. She handles it superbly and puts us right into the action. Feeling the anguish, the anger and the hurt. Showing us how true it is that there is always two -or more -sides to every story. We are forced to grapple with what is just and right. How far our culture will go to be accepted and what a huge impact a teenagers social status has upon their lives.
Your theories will be changed and your perception of what it is like for kids growing up today will be refocused. You will reevaluate what you teach your kids about fitting in and that everyone is different.
For me, I wanted to go take my kids out of school and sit down with them and really, really discuss this! I wanted to know if this was how hard it was and how they planned to deal with it if it ever became an issue for them or their friends. And I wanted to just hug them and tell them how much I loved them, and pray that they are never subjected to the kind of pain that some kids face every day they walk through the school doors.
With this story you are asked to identify how far justice should go and what is Right and wrong. Who the innocents are and if provocation gives us the right to retaliate in violence.
It's smart, intelligent and emotional story telling at it's absolute best
