The Burn Journals

Fans of Thirteen Reasons Why, Running with Scissors and Girl, Interrupted will be entranced by this remarkable true story of teenage despair and recovery

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 10/11/2005
ISBN: 9781400096428
Pages: 325
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.72d

Review Citations: Ingram Children's Advance 10/01/2005 pg. 79
Kliatt 11/01/2006 pg. 37

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 80773 / Burn Journals
Reading Level: 3.8 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 12