Save Me by Lisa Scottoline is an amazing realistic fiction and mystery book. It is a book that I would recommend to everyone. It may sound like a girl's book but I think that boys would also enjoy it.
In this book, the main character, Melly, has a birthmark on her cheek and many of the kids in her class tease her because of it. When Melly and her family move to Reesburgh, the bullying continues. One day, Amanda Gigot was teasing Melly by smearing jelly on her cheek. Melly ran and locked herself in the handicapped bathroom. Melly's mother, Rose McKenna, a volunteer lunch mom, goes and asks Amanda why she was teasing Melly. Moments later, the cafeteria explodes into flames. Rose is knocked unconcious. When she awakens, she is faced with the choice of saving her own daughter or saving teh three girls in front of her.
In a flash, Rose grabbed Amanda and her two friends and escorts them to the teacher at the door that leads to the playground. Then, she runs back inside the cafeteria to save Melly. The bathroom door is locked so Rose has to be creative in order to find a way inside. She finally gets inside, grabs Melly adn runs outside in search of medical help. When she arrives at the hospital, she learns that Amanda was never accounted for in her class and that Amanda's mother was planning to sue her. Throughout the rest of the book, Rose is trying to prove that she did take care of Amanda before her own daughter and eventually solves a murder mystery.
This book is definitely a page-turner. I absolutely loved it. It was a really quick read and was a lot of fun to read. I think that the author did an amazing job at portraying the character's feelings, emotions, and personality. Just to let you know, this book ends in a way that leads you to think that there would be a second book. It kind of leaves you hanging. Before reading this book, I would have never thought taht someone would actually balme another person for harming a child when really that put their own child at risk while they saved the other child(ren).
Like I said, I absolutely loved this novel. I would recommend it to anyone who likes realistic fiction, murder mystery, and thriller stories. I would rate this book an A+.
3 comments:
Oh my goodness! This sounds like an amazing book (: Did it happen to make you cry at all? Books like this usually would...
Yeah, it sounds like a pretty good book. A pretty good review too. Does it have a lot of action? Maybe I'll have to read this some time.
Hey Sir Knight, this book is full of action. It has one scene where someone actually gets electrocuted later in the book. This scene is a funny and action-packed scene. Sassy Swimmer- This book made me want to cry but I didn't actually cry. However, I don't ever cry that much with books. My mom read it and I caught her crying a few times though! :)
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