Crazy Beautiful
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · January 3, 2011
A Young Adult pick for readers exploring Crazy Beautiful.
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- Who it’s for
- A tender romance asks what changes when someone sees past the hooks.
- Themes
- Physical difference and self-image, Love and acceptance, Suffering and hope
- Genres
- Contemporary YA Romance, Disabilities & Special Needs for Teens, Finding Your Footing
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In an explosion of his own making, Lucius blew his arms off. Now he has hooks. He chose hooks because they were cheaper. He chose hooks because he wouldn’t outgrow them so quickly. He chose hooks so that everyone would know he was different, so he would scare even himself. Then he meets Aurora. The hooks don’t scare her. They don’t keep her away. In fact, they don’t make any difference at all to her. But to Lucius, they mean everything.
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They remind him of the beast he is inside. Perhaps Aurora is his Beauty, destined to set his soul free from its suffering. Or maybe she’s just a girl who needs love just like he does.
Being Seen
A tender romance asks what changes when someone sees past the hooks.
Come here for
- A Beauty-and-the-Beast echo with a human ache
- Romance shaped by self-image and the wish to be seen
Expect
- Hooks that mean more to Lucius than appearance
- A question of whether love can ease shame
Where it sits
| Disabilities & Special Needs for Teens | 84% |
|---|---|
| Contemporary YA Romance | 78% |
| Finding Your Footing | 28% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- YA Illness & Disease Stories
- Literary YA
- YA Romance
- Contemporary YA Romance
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- Dating & Sex for Teens
- Disabilities & Special Needs for Teens
- Emotions & Feelings for Teens
- Peer Pressure for Teens
- Authors
- Lauren Baratz-Logsted
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- January 3, 2011
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Physical difference and self-image · Love and acceptance · Suffering and hope
- Reading lane
- YA Illness & Disease Stories