CUT

By Patricia McCormick

"On the table there was a roll of batting, a glue gun, a doily, a 1997 Krafty Kitchens catalogue. Next to the catalogue was a special craft knife with the word EXACTO on the handle. It was sleek, like a fountain pen, with a thin triangular blade at the tip. I picked it up and laid the blade against the doily. The little knots came undone, just like that. I touched the blade to a piece of ribbon draped across the table and pressed, ever so slightly. The ribbon unfurled into two pieces and slipped to the floor without a sound. Then I placed the blade next to the skin on my palm.

A tingle arced across my scalp. The floor tipped up at me and my body spiraled away. Then I was on the ceiling looking down, waiting to see what would happen next. What happened next was that a perfect, straight line of blood bloomed from under the edge of the blade. The line grew into a long, fat bubble, a lush crimson bubble that got bigger and bigger. I watched from above, waiting to see how big it would get before it burst. When it did, I felt awesome. Satisfied, finally. Then exhausted."

Callie cut herself but never enough to die but enough to feel the pain. She has to go to a rehab center called residential treatment facility. But Callie doesn’t talk she is silent for a while. She ends up hearing other people’s thoughts there are groups that are in the facility named sick minds, anorexic, druggies and assorted psychos callie is in the assorted psychos because there is no one in the groups that cut there self’s  they all talk But She ends up talk and telling what she does to her self. Her mom and dad know. That is why she is in this rehab place to get everything off her mind but it takes a while for Callie to talk to everyone in the group.

I think this book is a good book for a teenager that is doing the same or struggling will there family and doesn’t know what to do. I would recommend this book to people who can handle hearing the truth what goes on in people’s lives and what could happen to you or what your friend might be doing to them selves.