Emily's review
Rubber Houses by Ellen Yeomans (Goodreads author!)
Emily's review
rating:
recommended for: YA readers, anyone dealing with loss
status: Read in August, 2007
rating:
recommended for: YA readers, anyone dealing with loss
status: Read in August, 2007
Rubber Houses by Ellen Yeomans is verse novel fiction that is very touching.
Kit is a normal teenager...until she finds out her 9 year old brother has cancer.
Instead of taking her pre-senior year road trips and hanging out with friends, she drives to the hospital and waits with her parents while her brother undergoes extensive treatments.
And then...he is gone. Her brother, Buddy, who loved baseball and his BF Aziz...who loved hot chocolate and 4th grade - he slips into a coma and then dies.
Reeling from the shock of it all, Kit and her parents become three strangers living together, but apart. They each deal with grief differently. Her father checks out completely. Her mother takes to researching cancer as if it will bring Buddy back. Kit tries to sleep it off. AFter she alienates her BF Callie and can't even stand her own company, she takes a shower/bath one evening and begins a new journey. She notices the caulk in the bathroom has become molded. And in the process of peeling ...more
Kit is a normal teenager...until she finds out her 9 year old brother has cancer.
Instead of taking her pre-senior year road trips and hanging out with friends, she drives to the hospital and waits with her parents while her brother undergoes extensive treatments.
And then...he is gone. Her brother, Buddy, who loved baseball and his BF Aziz...who loved hot chocolate and 4th grade - he slips into a coma and then dies.
Reeling from the shock of it all, Kit and her parents become three strangers living together, but apart. They each deal with grief differently. Her father checks out completely. Her mother takes to researching cancer as if it will bring Buddy back. Kit tries to sleep it off. AFter she alienates her BF Callie and can't even stand her own company, she takes a shower/bath one evening and begins a new journey. She notices the caulk in the bathroom has become molded. And in the process of peeling ...more
