num_pages: 384
description: After a bad day at school, eighth grader Brent Runyon comes home, plays a little basketball with his brother, then goes inside, soaks his bathrobe in gasoline, and set himself on fire. Thus begins the real-life odyssey of a 14-year-old boy struggling first to survive and then to retrieve a place in the universe. Runyon's first-person account of his close brush with death and his painful rehabilitation is reminiscent of Girl, Interrupted and Running with Scissors.
language: English
title: The Burn Journals
titlecomplete: The Burn Journals
characters: Brent Runyon
genres: Teen, Dark, Young Adult, Realistic Fiction, Psychology, Mental Health, Adult, Mental Illness, Biography Memoir, Coming Of Age
ratings_count: 7703
places: The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Rhode Island Teen Book Award, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award
category: Young Adult–Nonfiction, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Lincoln Award, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Gateway Readers Award
publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers