This book by David Klass really captures the audiances attention and reels you in like a dog to a bone.
Young John lives in a world that is not really a world because the world he prefers is inside his head and not where he lives (his house that is not a house) or his school (that is not a school). He lives in a place where algebra just makes you stupider and in band you play instruments that are really fighting animals (his tuba that is not a tuba is a frog and violent hayes her sax that is not a sax is a lizard). A world that a kitchen is not actuallly a kitchebn because it can not create a decent or even an edible meal at all.
No one seems to understand him; not his friends who are not friends or his dear worn out mother who would delightfully choose her new boyfriend of six months instead.
He gets beat repeatedly and often, often enough that it has its own set schedule.
But after his last faiteful beating leaving him between life and death he learns that the person he addresses the book to (his mother) does actually understand him and would have taken him over the man no matter what.
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