Charm & Strange
Books | Juvenile Nonfiction / Social Topics / Bullying
3.6
Stephanie Kuehn
The 2014 Winner of the William C. Morris AwardWhen you've been kept caged in the dark, it's impossible to see the forest for the trees. It's impossible to see anything, really. Not without bars . . . In Stephanie Kuehn's brilliant debut Charm & Strange, Andrew Winston Winters is at war with himself. He's part Win, the lonely teenager exiled to a remote Vermont boarding school in the wake of a family tragedy. The guy who shuts all his classmates out, no matter the cost.He's part Drew, the angry young boy with violent impulses that control him. The boy who spent a fateful, long-ago summer with his brother and teenage cousins, only to endure a secret so monstrous it led three children to do the unthinkable. Over the course of one night, while stuck at a party deep in the New England woods, Andrew battles both the pain of his past and the isolation of his present. Before the sun rises, he'll either surrender his sanity to the wild darkness inside his mind or make peace with the most elemental of truths-that choosing to live can mean so much more than not dying.
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Author
Stephanie Kuehn
Pages
216
Publisher
Macmillan
Published Date
2013-06-11
ISBN
1250021944 9781250021946
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"Well, I should give this book credit for finally getting me to finish a book and in two days no less! What compelled me to keep reading was <spoiler> wanting to know what exactly had happened to Drew/Win siblings and himself since he believes himself to be a werewolf so I figured that had to be some type of PTSS from a trauma. </spoiler><br/><br/>I don't really have much else to say. It wasn't bad, just didn't work for me. Seemed too much. <br/><br/>Actual rating: 2.5 stars (I had it at 2, then bumped it up to 3 since it did keep me engaged enough to keep reading.)"
Liesl Prentice