Scars – Cheryl A. Rainfield
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-246). Fifteen-year-old Kendra, a budding artist who has not felt safe since she began to remember devastating memories of childhood sexual abuse, cannot seem to recall her abuser's identity and copes with the stress by cutting herself.
Stolen – Lucy Christopher
Sixteen-year-old Gemma, a British city-dweller, is abducted while on vacation with her parents and taken to the Australian outback, where she soon realizes that escape attempts are futile, and in time she learns that her captor is not as despicable as she first believed.
Although I grouped these two books together, I don't really know that they are all that similar. Scars was the heart-wrenching reality of Kendra, and while Stolen explores some tough issues, the reality was not as real for me. I think that if I had not read these two books back to back, I would have appreciated Stolen so much more. Scars was so realistic and moving that it was impossible for me to feel the same passion in Stolen, even though it is a book that has an important message and a moving story.
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