num_pages: 259
description: In this compelling and compulsively readable memoir nineteen-year-old Paige Rawl tells the story of how she was mercilessly bullied in middle school...and how she overcame the ordeal to change her world for the better.In this astonishing memoir Paige tells a story that is both deeply personal and completely universalone that will resonate deeply with the thousands of children and adults whose lives have been touched by bullying.Paige Rawl has been HIV positive since birthbut growing up she never felt like her illness defined her. It never prevented her from entering beauty pageants or playing soccer or making the honor role.On an unremarkable day in middle school while attempting to console a friend Paige disclosed her HIV-positive statusand within hours the bullying began. She was called PAIDS first in whispers then out in the open. Her soccer coach joked that she was an asset because opposing team members would be too afraid to touch her. Her guidance counselor told her to stop all the drama and her principal said she couldnt protect her. One night desperate for escape Paige swallowed fifteen sleeping pillsone for each year of her life to date. That could have been the end of her story. Instead it was only the beginning. The gripping first-person account of Paiges life will pull in even the most reluctant readers of nonfiction and her call to action to choose compassion over cruelty will stay with them long after they turn the last page.
language: English
title: Positive
publisher: HarperCollins