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Cruise Control

by Terry Trueman

A brother’s place in a strained family

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A brother’s place in a strained family

Paul’s story centers on the complicated bond between two brothers: Paul is a high-school athlete, while Shawn has profound disabilities and cannot communicate verbally. With their father gone, Paul also feels pressure to take on the role of “man of the house.” Anger at his family’s circumstances and a secret he is afraid to share shape his struggle to imagine a future. The book gives the family’s “other” son the narrative focus, and is described as an independent companion to *Stuck in Neutral*.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens interested in sibling relationships and family responsibilities.
  • Readers seeking young adult fiction about disability and communication within a family.
  • Those interested in stories about anger, secrecy, and facing difficult circumstances.

Themes

Sibling relationshipsDisability and communicationFamily responsibilityAnger and secrecyHope for the future

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Book overview

How sick is this: I'm the major jock-stud in high school, but my brother has the brain of a badminton birdie and a body to match. I've got everything and he's got nothing. I'm a three-year, three-sport letterman and Shawn can't even stand up! Like I said, sick, huh?
It's hard to be a brother to someone who doesn't even know you're there. How can you talk to him when he can't understand a thing you say? How can you listen to him when he can't speak a word? How can you love him when he's so messed up, he can't love you back? And how can you have a life of your own when your father bailed on the family, leaving you to be the "man of the house"?
Fueled by rage at what has happened to his family, Paul is ready to explode. And he is haunted by something even worse—something he can never tell anyone. It is something he will have to face if he is to have any hope of a future at all. While Cruise Control is a companion to Terry Trueman's Printz Honor book, Stuck in Neutral, it is the completely independent story of a family's "other" son—the one who is healthy, gifted, normal. It is a courageously hopeful story told with power, compassion, and humor.
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