I read this my senior year in high school for my college credit class and I loved it. It was a very good read and if I wind up teaching high school students myself this is one I would pull out.

Okay so this book was so good, but it infuriated me at the end. I read it for my Brit Lit class and now I need to read the other books, though I doubt I'll ever find out what happened to Ryan's childhood friends in the woods.

"To me though, I'm just me. An ordinary kid."
This quote got me because it's the truth: he is just an ordinary kid, he just looks different. Everyone is really just another person, it's just how others perceive them.

When I read this book, I had to stop a few times to cry. It touched my heart in ways very few have been able to