When I picked up Shark Girl, by Kelly Bingham, I thought it was the book that inspired the movie that's out called Soul Surfer. I thought they were all about the same girl (the young surfer who was attacked by a shark and lost her arm). That's not the case. In fact, that young girl is actually mentioned, in passing, in this story.This is a story about a 15 year old girl who is swimming in the ocean and gets attacked by a shark. Her brother saves her life, and she loses her arm just above the elbow. It's written in verse and takes you from her first moments out of the coma in the hospital through her first year of living with her new life without an arm.
Moving and inspirational, the book has great insight into how a teenager might struggle with this overwhelming event. I really enjoyed it and liked the quick pace of the prose verse.
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