GJSHS book reviews

This book was written by an author who used to live in Granby so if you want to read a book by an author you might know this is a book for you. This book is about a girl, Kelley Ann Brennan, who lives in Maryland. She gets into a car accident and gets severely burned. Cummings tells about the emotional ups and downs of Kelley while she is in the hospital. When she comes home she finds her sister home from studying abroad. Leah plans on tutoring Kelley because she missed a few months of school. Kelley doesn’t want to go back to school because she has to wear a mask to keep her skin from scaring. With the help of her friends and family Kelley overcomes her fear of the world and realizes that “a face is the first thing one sees but a second impression can make all the difference.” Cummings spent many months in a burn unit observing patients so when she wrote this book it feels like you are actually right there next to Kelley. This is a good book because it tells of a girl who made it through a very tough time in her life and how she made the best of it.

Elise T.- 12th grade