Toby is young for ninth grade (he skipped), and he's the middle child between Jake, a tenth grader, and Eli, a second grader.
Toby's increasingly disastrous solution is to try to cover up for Jake. "What I don't know," he says, "is what you're supposed to do when it's your brother and not somebody in a video." Toby knows all the signs, from videos shown at school. The narrator, 13-year-old Toby Malone, has see-saw feelings about his once dazzling older brother, Jake, who's now taking drugs. Her second novel, "My Brother's Keeper," cuts even more deeply. IN "Cut," Patricia McCormick's terrific debut novel, the narrator cuts herself in order to feel something - anything - other than the feeling that she brought on her brother's life-threatening asthma attack.
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