Patricia McCormick, . . Scholastic/ Push, $6.99 (, $6.99 ISBN p) ISBN 978-0-439-32459-5
In a starred review, PW
wrote, "This first novel combines pathos with insight as it describes adolescent girls being hospitalized for a variety of psychiatric disorders. The book sympathetically and authentically renders the difficulties of giving voice to a very real sense of harm and powerlessness." Ages 12-up. (Feb.)
In this adaptation of McCormick's debut novel, Lewis (TV's Ellen) imbues her reading with the cynicism and pain of the book's troubled 15-year-old Continue reading »
The author of Cut
writes a second absorbing novel exploring the issue of an adolescent's self-destructive behavior. Thirteen-year-old Toby Malone, who Continue reading »
This hard-hitting novel told in spare free verse poems exposes the plight of a 13-year-old Nepali girl sold into sexual slavery. Through Lakshmi's innocent first-person narrative, McCormick Continue reading »
In this suspenseful psychological thriller, 18-year-old Matt Duffy, a private with memory problems following a traumatic brain injury, receives the Purple Heart in Iraq and gradually unravels the Continue reading »
This first novel combines pathos with insight as it describes adolescent girls being hospitalized for a variety of psychiatric disorders: ""The place is called a residential treatment facility. It is Continue reading »
McCormick (Purple Heart) again tackles a horrifying subject with grace while unsentimentally portraying the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge and Cambodia?s killing fields. Not unlike Linda Sue Park?s A Continue reading »
The Plot to Kill Hitler: Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Spy, Unlikely Hero
Patricia McCormick
In short, chronological chapters, two-time National Book Award?finalist McCormick (Never Fall Down) recounts the life of theologian and pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, his efforts to alert the Continue reading »
National Book Award finalist Patricia McCormick's new book, Never Fall Down, is a haunting but hopeful YA novel about a boy who survives the tyranny of the Khmer Rouge by Continue reading »
Patricia McCormick's first novel, Cut (Front Street), about adolescent girls in a psychiatric hospital, is so convincing and so compassionate that many readers will assume that Continue reading »
Aceves’s debut balances brash humor and fumbling first loves in an East L.A. narrative that places serious significance on mental health. Bisexual, Mexican American Enrique Continue reading »
Seton Academic High prep school’s varsity football team attributes tradition to their 12-year winning streak, and they’re not about to let anything get in the way of another Continue reading »
When 17-year-olds Ada Lovelace and Mary Shelley née Godwin meet at a party, they become thick as thieves in Ashton, Hand, and Meadows’s (My Contrary Mary) inventive historical Continue reading »
Viscerally rendered emotions and resonant chronic-illness representation build to a thrilling collaboration that deals in horror tropes. Since her diagnosis, whose treatment Continue reading »