John Green's The Fault in Our Stars meets Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park in this beautifully written, incredibly honest, and emotionally poignant novel. Amy and Matthew strike up a friendship of sorts, but her mother doesn't approve: because Amy - who is very smart - is going places, and Matthew, who has OCD, is probably not. For her senior year of high school, she decides to hire peer helpers - other students - and she asks Matthew, a boy she knows from school, to apply. Amy has CP (Cerebral Palsy), and all her life she's had adult helpers at school with her. This is not your typical YA novel, and it was also a fantastic read. Reading the book she found at the library convinced her of two things: (1) It was a pretty serious disorder, and (2) Matthew definitely had it. How his truest smile was crooked and lifted higher on the left side than the right, which made her feel like he might understand her better, her hemiplegic face that was all crooked half smiles too.īut it couldn't be denied. How his hands were so beautiful she could hardly look at them.
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