Here is my review for Waiting for Sarah I thought it was a very good book and is a good book for people who think their lives are bad. They should put themselves in Mike?s place and then compare to see whose life is better and whose is worse.
?In the minute before the crash, the father was squinting into the harsh yellow glare of the late afternoon sun.
The mother, seated beside him, was listening to opera music on the car radio.
In the back seat, behind the mother, the little girl was singing in a high squeal, poking fun at the music.
?Cut it out, Becky,? said the mother irritably. ?I?m trying to listen. This is the last time I?ll tell you.?
?Take no notice, Joanne,? the driver said. ?She?s over-excited.? He turned his head towards the boys seated behind him, ?Calm your sister down, Mike, before she drives us all crazy.? But Mike, absorbed in his own thoughts, said nothing.
Becky continued to sing, mimicking the soprano.
Joanne?s patience ran out. ?Becky!? she yelled.
Her daughter?s name was the last word she ever spoke. A truck came at them from the opposite side of the freeway, charging over the grass median and ramming their Chevy head-on with the force of a bomb. In the explosion of metal, plastic and glass, the four occupants were crushed like flies, three of them fatally.
Their deaths were quick.
?The lone driver of the runaway truck had been drinking all afternoon. His skull shattered the windshield. His death was also quick.?
This is how Michael Scott described the drive home from the air show that weekend afternoon when his family was killed in that fatal car crash. Michael was scared and confused, he was always angry and cursing at everyone. Didn?t care how people felt or what they did to help him.
Before the crash Mike was a smart kid who did good in school and did good in his classes. He never had problems except for the occasional sibling squabbling.
After the crash Mike turned into a world-hating maniac who would make sure that every person he saw, every person that met him, would never be the same after they met and saw him. Personally on the top I think that he wanted everyone to feel as miserable as he did, but deep inside he was scared and wanted people?s help. But he didn?t want to show it. He was stubborn, rude, and obnoxious but that didn?t stop most people for feeling sorry for him, he didn?t want them to feel sorry for him. He said ?He didn?t want their pity?.
Mike knows that if he wants to graduate he must listen to his Aunt Norma and finish his courses in order to graduate. He had missed a lot because he refused to go to school and then when his Aunt Norma told him that his mother wouldn?t be proud of him, he decided to take a shot at it. He still didn?t want to go because he didn?t want to look at their pitiful faces like he was a six-year-old in the wrong school.
When he returns he hates his Grade 12 History teacher Mr. Dorfman. He would like to avoid his classes but knows his Aunt wants him to graduate. Margaret Cowley, head of the yearbook committee proposes to Mike that if he makes a scrapbook in order to prepare for Carleton High?s Golden Jubilee to commemorate 50 years then she can get him out of history class for the rest of the year. He decides to go through with it even though he doesn?t want to. He later regrets he didn?t negotiate to get and assistant to help him get things from higher shelves seeing that he is in a wheelchair.
A few weeks in, a girl named Sarah shows up and starts to help Mike. He thinks she talks too much and asks too many questions, but he is still satisfied that he doesn?t always have to bother Mrs. Pringle the librarian to help him. Sarah helps him and Mike starts turning back into his old self, cheery and he and Sarah become good friends.
One day, Mike stumbles on Sarah?s secret and finds out that he hadn?t actually seen her seeing that she had died 17 years before he was born. Mike, already enjoying going through old photos and stuff sees a newspaper that tells him more about what happened to Sarah. She was murdered and the murderer was still out there.
The story was written in first person. The person telling the story was Michael
By the end of the book you find out the murderer was? You?ll have to read the book to find out because there would be no point in me giving it away.
If you like suspense and mystery then Waiting for Sarah is the perfect book for you if you are 12 and older.
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