Mature readers should really enjoy this book. Warning- -strong language is used
infrequently in this book.
Jamaica (Jam for short) Gallahue has suffered a devastating
loss. Teeve Maxwell was Jam’s first
love. The loss of him has completely
derailed Jam. Since Jam is still in
mourning after a year, upon the advice of her family and her therapist, she is
sent to The Wooden Box, a special type of boarding school in Vermont.
“Although no one comes right out and says it, The Wooden Box
is sort of a halfway house between a hospital and a regular school.”
The transition to this special school isn't the easiest for
Jam. The other “unhinged” fellow
students have their own personal traumas through which to work.
When Jam is selected with five other students for a special
English class entitled “Special Topics,” Jam’s roommate DJ is crushed. She has been at The Wooden Box for two years
and has never been offered the opportunity to be in this class.
Mrs. Quenell has decided since this will be her last
semester teaching, the sole author the five students in Special Topics English
will explore is Sylvia Plath. They will
be studying her poetry as well as her most famous work The Bell Jar. Each student
is given a very special red leather bound journal in which to write his/her
thoughts.
What they don’t know initially is that the journals
transport them back to the trauma with which they are suffering. The five discover that all of them are
experiencing the same effect of the journal writing. They decide to term this out of body
experience “going to Belzhar”-- thus the title of this book.
Will traveling to Belzhar help each of them cope or will it
induce more trauma into their already troubled lives? Read this title to find
out!
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