Cut by Patricia McCormick

Callie is a young teenager who cuts herself to escape her loneliness and pain.  She finds herself at Sea Pines, a treatment facility.  She refuses to talk to anyone feeling even more out of place among the drug addicts, anemics, and obese patients in her group.  She finds herself even more upset when another girl arrives who cuts herself as well but is very open about it.  No one in Callie's group even know that she cuts herself.  We follow her as she goes from her individual therapy session to group sessions and sits there thinking about things around her and watching how the other girls cope with their disorders as well as watching one young woman who continues to throw up and throw away her food.  It is written with her thoughts and what she assumes others are thinking.

This is an incredibly easy read and I finished it in one evening.  Blake got this for one of his students that likes to read stories about people with problems that seem worse than her own.  In my opinion this young lady can relate to these other teens in the books and hopefully she finds some solace and inspiration to continue with life and eventually become a better person.  She definately is one of Blake's harder students to cope with, but Blake is one of the few adults that can get her to do her work and try hard.  I think this is a good book for people to read especially teens since many, even if they do not have a disorder, can relate to feelings of hopelessness and loneliness at times.  This can even give kids who are struggling with something a little hope and push to overcome what they are struggling with.