Stuck in Neutral

Stuck in Neutral

by: Terry Trueman

published by: Harper Collins

Summary: Shawn McDaniel is the dumbest kid in his class. In his entire school! He has cerebral palsey and lacks the ability to respond to anything, including people talking to him or getting right up in his face. There's a secret though and only Shawn knows it. He's a secret genius; he can remember anything he sees, he can read, he knows exactly what's going on around him. He just has no way to communicate it to the world. To them he is a vegetable, but he is only trapped inside a vegetable body. How can he make them see that there is someone in there? Especially after he starts getting eerie feelings that his father wants to kill him.

Personal review: I loved this book! It was completely frustrating though because you knew something the characters in the book didn't. That Shawn is coherent, but we too are trapped from telling them. Although frustrating, it was a fascinating point of view to have and makes you think about situations that could be similar in your life of the life of people you know.

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