MyHome.ie (Opens in new window) • Top 1000 • The Gloss (Opens in new window) • Recruit Ireland (Opens in new window) • Irish Times Training (Opens in new window) Like an orphan, I came here with no clothes. Like an orphan, I was wrapped in a bedsheet and left on the lawn of Regions Hospital in the freezing sleet and snow, blood seeping through the flowered sheet. This was an okay read. Not really something that I would normally reach for, but I’m not mad that I read it. I will say that I had an EXTREMELY hard time getting into the beginning of this, but once the main character moved cities things really started holding my attention and I ended up enjoying it in the end. Charlotte Davis lost everything in her life; her father, her mother, her best friend and her direction in life. She became homeless and lived on a sex house where she witnessed abuse. She doesn't have a good relationship with her mother because she neglect Did you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Violence & Scariness in your kid's entertainment guide. Get started Close

The Fault in Our Stars meets Eleanor and Park in this exhilarating and heart-wrenching love story about a girl who learns to live from a boy who intends to die.Charlie is flawed, broken. But she is human, and so am I. And if a girl with no parents, who was sexually assaulted, abandoned, and isolated could fight her way to the top, then so can I.

I want to praise Ms. Kathleen Glasgow for her courage to write this book. Her note at the last part is amazing.. So deep and hands down amazing. This is a greatly written debut novel and an eye opener to self-harm. These people want to voice out but no one is willing to hear them out, WHEN WE SHOULD HAVE. Worse, being judge of whatever problem they're facing. It's important we should not ignore these people and help them in every possible way. For those who are experiencing this, express it before you explode. Don't let your burdens destroy you. The case is closed. Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by Sal Singh. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he did it. But for those who do enjoy books that cover a wide range of issues, and this style of writing, then I'm sure Girl in Pieces has a lot to offer. It's just not my cup of tea.stars. An extra 1/2 star because I think a lot of readers will love this - it's just a certain type of storytelling that always leaves me cold.

Cutting is a fence you build upon your own body to keep people out but then you cry to be touched. But the fence is barbed. What then?” When she’s cutting, the reality of the pain is able to make all of the pain and sadness that she’s feeling go away. Cutting lets her get to the place where it’s all not bothering her and there’s nothing remaining but a calm feeling. She doesn’t focus on things that are too tough to feel but she still feels all the time. One of these things is her father, or that thing that happened under the bridge. I felt so many emotions reading this: sadness, guilt, pity, hope, disappointment. Mainly sad, since this book covers many dark and upsetting subjects, but there was also the hope. Hope when Charlie was getting better, hope when Charlie was smiling. I am eighteen years old, and I have struggled with mental health and self-harm for many years. This book is very real. A high school girl and her friend deal with problems, and the girl want to know her friend’s brother for a reason.Many young adult novels deal with physical or mental illness. Which others have you read and liked? What's so compelling about these topics? Charlie went through so much in this book, that I just wanted to hold her, and tell her everything’s going to be alright. Although this book tells a story of people being cruel to themselves, it is a book about being gentle with yourself. It seems odd to call this novel kind, as it was often a savage read (it is unflinching in its portrayal of self-harm, homelessness, addiction, and desperation) but it has such a sweet heart, such a piercing desire for its characters to improve themselves in every way, that hope persists in even the darkest moments. Glasgow's use of adult characters to challenge, support, and mirror the teen characters is genuinely inspired, and the resulting fictional neighborhood dynamic felt intensely real. In general, the characters are wonderfully drawn, and although this novel is nothing like Code Name Verity, I think I might recommend it to folks who enjoyed that one. Girl in Pieces prioritizes characters and their complicated truths in a similar way. I'd probably recommend this one for older teens and adults who read YA, not because I believe in shielding kids from content, but because the characters in this novel make nuanced and morally gray decisions that might render them unlikable to a less experienced soul. I know I would have judged the narrator more harshly at 13 than at 18, and that would have been a shame.