Sunday, August 17, 2014

Break



Break by Hannah Moskowitz                      262 pages
Jonah has been breaking bones on purpose.  He stages accidents and his friend Naomi videotapes it.  His goal is to eventually break every bone in his body.  Jonah has two brothers.  Jesse, who is a year younger, and Will, who is just a baby.  Jesse has severe allergies to almost everything, but especially many types of food.  He is extremely allergic to milk, which makes living with a baby very difficult.  Jonah’s parents aren’t aware that he is breaking bones on purpose, but Jesse is and people at school are starting to notice.  Jonah knows that he needs to stop before people start questioning him too closely, but he’s not sure he can.  I really liked this story and I like Moskowitz’s writing, but I didn’t like the ending very much.  It felt kind of contrived and unrealistic and at the same time didn’t really feel finished.  Generally though, I thought the book was pretty good and teens who like realistic stories might like this book.

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