If you’re looking for a book about abuse this book is for you. Search for Safety by John Langan is about boy who just found out his mom is marring his step dad he is going to start a new school, and his aunt he lived with for a long time is leaving to see her dad. Search for Safety is a good book it helps you get a understanding of what a kid goes through when he is getting abused by someone and does not know how to tell anyone.
The main character in this book is a boy named Ben McKee. He just found out his mom and step dad are getting Married.Then he finds out that they are moving and he will have to attend a new school. They move in their new house on Union Street. Once at their new home his step dad Larry started beating him up. Bend’s Aunt took him to visit his new school and principal at BluFord High School and he met a girl named Cindy. Then he finds out that his aunt Faye was moving to North Carolina because her father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. So he was sad about that. He also got a job at a Grocery Store helping a man named Mr.Graham. A few days later he caught his step dad Larry beating his mother and he tried to convince her to call the police but she was scared and he also was scared. Then his aunt comes back and see’s Larry on top of Ben and tells him to leave and never come back.
The theme in this book was to tell someone if you are being abused no one will make fun of you. Ben was a boy being abused and he didn't tell anyone for a long time and he decided to deal with Larry. Ben should have told someone like at least a friend because it could get serious and Ben could have gotten really hurt or he could have died.
This was a really good book. The author did a good job in choosing the right words to use. He maid it seem as if you were there when it was happening. The age for reading this book I think was good. Also he is doing a good this by writing this book because maybe someone who is being abused by someone may read this and tell someone about there problems they are having.
The main character in this book is a boy named Ben McKee. He just found out his mom and step dad are getting Married.Then he finds out that they are moving and he will have to attend a new school. They move in their new house on Union Street. Once at their new home his step dad Larry started beating him up. Bend’s Aunt took him to visit his new school and principal at BluFord High School and he met a girl named Cindy. Then he finds out that his aunt Faye was moving to North Carolina because her father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. So he was sad about that. He also got a job at a Grocery Store helping a man named Mr.Graham. A few days later he caught his step dad Larry beating his mother and he tried to convince her to call the police but she was scared and he also was scared. Then his aunt comes back and see’s Larry on top of Ben and tells him to leave and never come back.
The theme in this book was to tell someone if you are being abused no one will make fun of you. Ben was a boy being abused and he didn't tell anyone for a long time and he decided to deal with Larry. Ben should have told someone like at least a friend because it could get serious and Ben could have gotten really hurt or he could have died.
This was a really good book. The author did a good job in choosing the right words to use. He maid it seem as if you were there when it was happening. The age for reading this book I think was good. Also he is doing a good this by writing this book because maybe someone who is being abused by someone may read this and tell someone about there problems they are having.