Title: Cut
Author: Patricia McCormick
Publish Date: January 2002
Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
Pages: 160pp
IBSN: 0439324599
Classification: Fiction
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Age Range: 12 and up
Price: $16.95
Annotation: Callie is hiding a fatal secret, she a cutter. When she is found out she is sent away to an institution where she meets many different people with all sorts of issues and she begins to finally understand herself.
Summary: Callie is a 15 year old girl who is seemingly normal. But she is hiding a scary truth. She deals with her pain by cutting her own skin. When her parents find out they send her to get help. But she won't talk. Not to anyone. her parents deal with her in different, hurtful way. Her dad begins to drink and folds into his work as an escape. her mother a frantic, frail mess who is a hair short of agoraphobic. The family problems that lead to her pain in the first place need to be dealt with and until finally she begins to let go, she can't begin to heal.
Bibliotherapeutic Usefulness: psychology of cutting a form of self-abuse, family dysfunction, therapy
Evaluation and reason this book was chosen: I loved that this was a quick read because I had trouble connecting to it. I felt like it just ok. I didn't think the writing was that sophisticated and the the plot kinda under developed or something. I was excited to read it but in the end I didn't connect. However, it is accessible and there are levels of hope and change and possibilities of being healed which is good for people who are looking for a book who aren't generally into reading 500 page novels. For that this book may really hit the spot. I have heard people say they really responded to this book so that is why I included it.
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