Cut

Teenagers always keep secrets and they always analyze their lives. However, there are good and bad secrets, which can impact a teenagers’ life drastically. This book will take readers through the emotional and physical pain that teenagers can face as they examine their lives. Cut by Patricia McCormick is a book about a fifteen-year-old girl named Callie. She had intense pain because everything in her life changed and Callie didn’t know how to express her feelings or thoughts to her family and friends. Callie has been cutting herself in an attempt to relieve some of her emotional pain caused by her anxiety and guilt in secret. Callie soon finds herself in a psychiatric institution with other girls in similar situations. Here she is forced to examine the situation and figure out why she got into such a difficult and harmful mess. Read this book to find out if Callie is able to learn how to release her emotional pain by talking instead of causing physical pain by cutting herself to release it. This is a good book for all teenagers especially for teenage girls because it shows them that they don’t need to bottle up their feelings and emotions to the point where they hurt themselves physically in attempt to release their emotional pain. It also shows them that they are not alone. Teenage girls will definitely get something out of this book.