num_pages: 336
description: I don’t want to get out of bed.I’m so stupid.I did so many things wrong.I don’t know what to do.I’m going to be in so much trouble.What am I going to do?I’m completely screwed.In 1991, fourteen-year-old Brent Runyon came home from school, doused his bathrobe in gasoline, put it on, and lit a match.He suffered third-degree burns over 85% of his body and spent the next year recovering in hospitals and rehab facilities. During that year of physical recovery, Runyon began to question what he’d done, undertaking the complicated journey from near-death back to high school, and from suicide back to the emotional mainstream of life.In the tradition of Running with Scissors and Girl, Interrupted, The Burn Journals is a truly remarkable book about teenage despair and recovery.
language: English
title: The Burn Journals
titlecomplete: The Burn Journals
characters: Brent Runyon
genres: Dark, Adult, Mental Health, Teen, Psychology, Young Adult, Biography Memoir, Coming Of Age, Mental Illness, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 7702
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: Vintage