I Crawl Through It by A.S. King

Wow!  This one was such a great read.  As King will tell you herself, it is weird and strange, but so powerful.  You have to just let this one sit for a while after reading it.  It is a story told by four teenagers.  The each have their own oddity about them, such as China who has swallowed herself.  Each of these kids has dealt with some form of trauma in their lives and are trying to figure out how to deal with it and be able to live a normal life.  It is a wonderfully told story that is not only powerful, but so important.  It is a book that so many kids should read about dealing with the trauma of their lives and crawling through it to come to a better place.  I can't recommend this book enough!

From Amazon:

Four teenagers are on the verge of exploding. The anxieties they face at every turn have nearly pushed them to the point of surrender: senseless high-stakes testing, the lingering damage of past trauma, the buried grief and guilt of tragic loss. They are desperate to cope, but no one is listening.

So they will lie. They will split in two. They will turn inside out. They will even build an invisible helicopter to fly themselves far away...but nothing releases the pressure. Because, as they discover, the only way to truly escape their world is to fly right into it.

The genius of acclaimed author A.S. King reaches new heights in this groundbreaking work of surrealist fiction; it will mesmerize readers with its deeply affecting exploration of how we crawl through traumatic experience-and find the way out.