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I too have just finish this book WOW it is really touching and I am amazed that I feel myself feeling sorry for peter, He had to deal with a lot of cr@p from alot of people but I think that he had his only friend turn on him also is what made him this way, I felt lacy's pain when she felt had to tell peter to fight back you could tell she didnt want to do it but felt she had to give him tuff love.
It made me realise that you really have to try hard in the teen year to keep the lines of comunications open as Josie's felt like she had no one to turn to and thought that Matt loved her, when he really was just controling her. If only girls in high school could have a talk about whats ment to happen in a relationship and whats not then maybe she wouldnt have felt the need to do what she did.
I guess you never realise how hard it really is for the " cool " kids to stay on top as they dont really ever make friends just other people to look cool with. They would never feel like they had anyone to really talk to, for fear of been " uncool" they alway had to act, which I think is the way that Alex made Josie to be as once she was a judge I dont think she was a mum anymore, until this happened so josie alway sore her mum been a judge having to act the right way when out couldnt be them selves even when it was Josies birthday, I think if Alex could have taken of the robes when she got home and acted like a mum and showed that she did have feeling that she could scream and cry and laugh then maybe Josies could have felt that she didnt have to pretend and may have stayed friend with Peter.
sorry if I have gone on a bit but I have never been in a book club before not sure on how or what I am ment to write so I just gabbed on ..
this book has touched me mostly as I too have a son who we have alway said "O he's just sensitive " as he is he has a very kind heart but it is also very open and I do worry about how he is going to get through all the years he has to come, I just hope that if he ever got to the stage of bulling that peter had to put up with he would let me know, he is doing ok at the moment but doesnt tell me much as he is such a follower thats its hard sometimes to tell whats going on in his head as he will sometime have a cry to his dad ( who is away alot) but we can never get out of him why he is so sad sometimes. But I do know one thing that if he ever got bullyed like that I would pull him out of school so fast they wouldnt know what hit them I would prefer to home school my child than let that happen.
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