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Trigger
By Vaught, Susan
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-1-58234-920-6
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on November 1, 2006
Gr 8-Up Having spent the better part of his last years of high school in a hospital and rehabilitation center, Jersey Hatch recovers from the brain damage inflicted by a gunshot to his head, by his own hand. Through a hazy series of flashbacks, memories, dreams, and scenes from the presentoften coded in what will appear to many readers as h...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on September 1, 2006
"I have this dream where both legs work and both arms work and I don't have any scars on the outside..." Jersey Hatch, seventeen, returns home from the Carter Brain Injury Center almost a year after his attempted suicide left him brain-damaged. Once a popular football star, Jersey has lost motor control on the left side of his body, must think and talk through neurological tics and stutters, and can't remember the months leading up to his suicide attempt — or the ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
