The burn journals

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The work The burn journals represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Service (CCRLS). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Label

The burn journals

Statement of responsibility

Brent Runyon

Creator

• trueRunyon, Brent

Author

• trueRunyon, Brent

Subject

• Autobiographies
• Biographies
• trueBurn victims -- Rehabilitation
• Case studies
• Case studies
• trueCoping in teenage boys
• trueFamily and suicide
• trueGuilt in teenage boys
• Juvenile works
• Runyon, Brent
• Runyon, Brent
• Runyon, Brent -- Juvenile literature
• trueSuicidal behavior
• Teenage boys
• trueTeenage boys -- Biography
• Teenage boys -- Suicidal behavior -- Case studies | Juvenile literature
• Teenage boys -- Suicidal behavior -- Virginia -- Case studies
• trueTeenage boys -- Virginia -- Biography
• trueTeenage burn victims
• Virginia
• trueVirginia
• Teenage boys -- Suicidal behavior -- Case studies
• Autobiographies

Genre

• trueCase studies
• Juvenile literature
• Juvenile works
• Autobiographies
• trueBiographies
• trueBiography

Language

eng

Summary

Brent Runyon was fourteen years old when he set himself on fire. In this book he describes that suicide attempt and his recovery over the following year. He takes us into the Burn Unit in a children2s hospital and through painful burn care and skin-grafting procedures. Then to a rehabilitation hospital, for intensive physical, occupational, and psychological therapy. And then finally back home, to the frightening prospect of entering high school. But more importantly, Runyon takes us into his own mind. He shares his thoughts and hopes and fears with such unflinching honesty that we understand--with a terrible clarity--what it means to want to kill yourself and how it feels to struggle back toward normality. Intense, exposed, insightful, The Burn Journals is a deeply personal story with universal reach. It is impossible to look away. Impossible to remain unmoved. This truly riveting memoir is a spectacular debut for a talented new writer

Storyline

• trueOwn voices

Award

• International Reading Association Children's Book Award for Young Adult Nonfiction, 2005.
• YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, 2007

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 362.28/092
• B

Index

no index present

Intended audience

• Young Adult
• 690

Intended audience source

Lexile

Interest level

UG

LC call number

HV6546

LC item number

.R86 2004

Literary form

non fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 8
• 12

NLM call number

HV 6546

NLM item number

R943 2004

Reading level

• 3.8
• 5.8.

Study program name

• Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning
• Reading Counts!

Target audience

juvenile