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| View Larger Image | Cruise Control
by Terry Trueman
| | List Price: | $7.99 |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 337452 | | Studio: | HarperTeen | | | Binding: | Paperback | | Reading Level: | Young Adult | | Number Of Pages: | 160 | | Publication Date: | November 01, 2005 | | Publisher: | HarperTeen |
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Product Description
How sick is this: I'm the major jock-stud in high school, but my brother has the brain of a badminton birdie and a body to match. I've got everything and he's got nothing. I'm a three-year, three-sport letterman and Shawn can't even stand up! Like I said, sick, huh?
It's hard to be a brother to someone who doesn't even know you're there. How can you talk to him when he can't understand a thing you say? How can you listen to him when he can't speak a word? How can you love him when he's so messed up, he can't love you back? And how can you have a life of your own when your father bailed on the family, leaving you to be the "man of the house"? Fueled by rage at what has happened to his family, Paul is ready to explode. And he is haunted by something even worse -- something he can never tell anyone. It is something he will have to face if he is to have any hope of a future at all. While Cruise Control is a companion to Terry Trueman's Printz Honor book, Stuck in Neutral, it is the completely independent story of a family's "other" son -- the one who is healthy, gifted, normal. It is a courageously hopeful story told with power, compassion, and humor. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 16 reviews)
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Awsome Book 
this book was exilent. Im on my mom's name but i read this book last year when i was in 6 grade and i loved it.
Infact i loved it so much i read it 5 more time's.
I started to read "Inside-out," but i didn't like it. It didn't interest me inuf to read all of it. But if u r looking into this book. READ IT PLEAE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You will love it. Promise me.
Just from this review im going to read it again.
August 15, 2008 | |
A Gripping Follow-Up To Terry Trueman's "Stuck In Neutral"
I was a bit iffy about reading "Cruise Control" at first. This is because it was the same concept as "Stuck In Neutral," but this one being from the perspective of Shawn McDaniel's older brother Paul. I don't know why I was iffy, but my insecurity was groundless.
"Cruise Control" was very sad. There were two parts that really got to me, and that's when Paul first feels a true affection for Shawn, and the second being the truth about what happened when those two bullies were burning Shawn on the porch. The latter parts, especially the last of the two, still are grabbing at my heart. They are just so sad!
This one made me cry more than the first one. It was very, very touching. It was also very cool to see a book from two different perspectives, especially from a character who, in the first book, we didn't see many aspects of affection towards Shawn, so it was very good.
This one wasn't as much in mini vignettes as "Stuck In Neutral," but it was still a very touching, gripping tale of love and affection. If you loved "Stuck In Neutral," then you'll love "Cruise Control." It's another must-read!
January 13, 2008 | |
A Truthful Book 
The thing I liked most about this book is that it gets the first person male narration of a senior in high school pretty spot on. Paul is a highly successful athlete and scholar in his last year in high school, but is constantly brimming with a pressure-cooker full of rage. He's angry at his father, at people who try to get too close to him, and at the unfairness of life. Most of all, though, he's angry at himself and his confused feelings he feels towards his fourteen-year-old brother who is a "veg", as Paul describes him.
Many boys will enjoy this book because of the tone of the narration, but also because of the sports story and buzzer-beater ending. While there are some occasional 4-letter words (hello? as I said, he IS a senior in high school), I will recommend this probably to some select kids in my middle school classroom.
September 02, 2007 | |
a good book
This is a good book. It is abut a kid that has Cerebral Palsy and he can't control anything he does. He thinks his dad is out to kill his little brother, Shawn. Paul is in the 11th grade and is the starting quarter back for the high school. He is like the main jock of the school. He is very good at basketball, too. During practice he made a quarter-court shot and they didn't have to run ball breakers, which are sprints up and down the gym. Overall this was a good book and I recommend it to you. You will know how it is to have a little brother with Cerebral Palsy after you read this book.
October 12, 2006 | |
Terry Trueman Draws You In
I thought this was a very good book. It really got in Paul's head. It has a very emotional begining and ending but it really draws you in. Terry Trueman knows how to write books in the first person. I really enjoy her style of writing. I loved how Paul finally said to Shawn, his brother, how he really did love him.
June 11, 2006 | |
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