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When Ruth Ann (Roo) McCabe responds to a text message while she's driving, her life as she knows it ends. The car flips, and Roo winds up in a hospital bed, paralyzed. Silent. Everyone thinks she's in a coma, but Roo has locked-in syndrome -- she can see and hear and understand everything around her, but no one knows it. She's trapped inside her own body, screaming to be heard.
Mathilda (Tilly) is Roo's sister and best friend. She was the one who texted Roo and inadvertently caused the accident. Now, Tilly must grapple with her overwhelming guilt and her growing feelings for Roo's boyfriend, Newton -- the only other person who seems to get what Tilly is going through.
But Tilly might be the only person who can solve the mystery of her sister's condition -- who can see through Roo's silence to the truth underneath.
Somehow, through medicine or miracles, will both sisters find a way to heal?
- Sales Rank: #164567 in Books
- Published on: 2016-02-23
- Released on: 2016-02-23
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x 1.30" w x 5.60" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 352 pages
From School Library Journal
Gr 7–10—This realistic, if a bit heavy-handed, emotional ride takes readers through two sisters' perspectives on a life-altering accident. Tilly and Roo, close friends as well as siblings, find their lives thrown upside down when Roo gets into a devastating car accident. She survives but goes into a coma and eventually suffers from locked-in syndrome—she can hear and see, but she just can't move. Everyone rallies around her, but Tilly, her younger sister, finds herself increasingly on the outside and increasingly attracted to Roo's boyfriend, Newton. Tilly's feelings of guilt multiply when everyone in school discovers that she was texting Roo at the time of the accident. Newton and Roo's relationship, while emotionally deep, remains modest, so middle schoolers would be quite comfortable with the romance here. The alternating chapters, from Tilly's and Roo's perspectives, add to the authenticity of the story; the emotions are genuine and heartfelt. The "don't text and drive" message is a little overdrawn, but readers will be engaged in the emotional and physical recoveries of both sisters. Fans of Gayle Forman's If I Stay (Dutton, 2009) will find another favorite in this. VERDICT A good purchase for libraries with teens craving realistic but not edgy fiction.—Lisa Ehrle, Falcon Creek Middle School, CO
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Praise for Internationally Bestselling Author Luanne Rice
"Luanne Rice has enticed millions of readers." -- USA Today
"Rice has an elegant style, a sharp eye, and a real warmth." -- San Francisco Chronicle
"Rice's trademarks are fine writing, a good eye for small detail, and an uncanny way of conveying the mysterious glue that holds families together." -- Kirkus Reviews
From the Inside Flap
When Ruth Ann (Roo) McCabe responds to a text message while she's driving, her life as she knows it ends. The car flips, and Roo winds up in a hospital bed, paralyzed. Silent. Everyone thinks she's in a coma, but Roo has locked-in syndrome -- she can see and hear and understand everything around her, but no one knows it. She's trapped inside her own body, screaming to be heard.
Mathilda (Tilly) is Roo's sister and best friend. She was the one who texted Roo and inadvertently caused the accident. Now, Tilly must grapple with her overwhelming guilt and her growing feelings for Roo's boyfriend, Newton -- the only other person who seems to get what Tilly is going through.
But Tilly might be the only person who can solve the mystery of her sister's condition -- who can see through Roo's silence to the truth underneath.
Somehow, through medicine or miracles, will both sisters find a way to heal?
Told from alternating perspectives, this gorgeous, unputdownable story of love, hope, and redemption marks bestselling author Luanne Rice's dazzling entry into the world of YA.
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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
Don't text while driving -- and don't SEND a text to someone who MIGHT be driving!
By Kathy Cunningham
Luanne Rice’s THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF SISTERS is both a scathing indictment of texting-while-driving and an uplifting tribute to the bond between sisters. Sixteen-year-old Roo McCabe is pretty much the perfect teenager – she’s gorgeous, popular, brilliant, and a genius with a camera. She’s on track to be high school valedictorian, followed by college at Yale and a limitless future. But when she makes the mistake of answering a text on an icy afternoon, she flips her car and ends up in a coma, perhaps lost forever. But is Roo really in a coma, or is her mind actually alert and aware, even if she’s unable to communicate that fact to the rest of the world?
On one level, this is a novel about the horrors that can result from reading and answering texts while driving. The text Roo answers comes from her fourteen-year-old sister Tilly, who she was late picking up. So there’s plenty of guilt to go around. Roo feels she destroyed her own life in those three seconds of stupidity, and Tilly believes it’s all her fault since if she hadn’t texted Roo, the accident would never have happened. And it’s all very gripping and real, and I’m sure Rice’s story will resonate with today’s teens, for whom texting has become a way of life. But is Tilly really responsible (even in part) for her sister’s decision to send that fatal text? I don’t think so. And Tilly’s guilt is central to Rice’s ultimate message.
The problem is, everyone sends texts these days – even my 89-year-old father texts – and every time we send a text, we have no clue what’s going on for the person we’re texting. Is she at a movie, in a restaurant, talking on the phone, or driving on an icy road? We don’t know. In the case of Rice’s novel, Tilly is texting Roo because she’s late picking her up. She assumes Roo is out taking photographs and has lost track of time (which is at least partly true). She also assumes that if Roo IS on the road, she won’t answer the text without pulling over. But by the midpoint in Rice’s novel, Tilly has become the focus of a concerted campaign against texting-while-driving, a campaign instigated by Tilly’s mom (who is horrified that her two daughters did this terrible thing) and carried out by the school and the media. Pictures of Tilly and Roo (including one horrific shot of Roo in the hospital just after the accident) are circulated on the Internet, in a school assembly, and in the newspapers and on TV. And not one person tells Tilly what I want to tell her – it’s NOT your fault that Roo answered your text while she was driving.
In the novel, several other people had texted Roo that same afternoon, including her best friend and her boyfriend. As luck would have it, Tilly’s text is the one that comes at the wrong time. Does that make Tilly more to blame than the others? No, of course not! I get that Tilly feels terrible about what happened (and it’s believable that she would feel guilty about sending that text), but if she’s to blame (even in part) for what happens to Roo, then none of us should EVER send texts . . . unless we are 100% certain that the person we’re texting isn’t engaged in some activity that would make reading or answering a text dangerous. And we just can’t know that. Ever.
Of course, there’s more to this novel than just its anti-texting message. Tilly has to figure out that Roo is conscious and can communicate, even if it appears she’s comatose. Roo has to come to terms with her disabilities and figure out a way to move forward with her life. And Tilly has to fight her growing feelings for Roo’s boyfriend, feelings that add to the guilt she’s already feeling and threaten to destroy her bond with her sister. But the central message in this novel is definitely about the dangers of texting. And that part didn’t work for me. I kept waiting for someone – anyone – to tell Tilly that the responsibility for what happened to Roo is Roo’s alone. Roo made the decision to read the text. Roo made the decision to answer the text, even as she navigated that icy road. Tilly is not to blame. But in this novel, she is. And that’s a message that just doesn’t work.
Overall, THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF SISTERS is a well-written and interesting novel about two very devoted sisters who are faced with a very difficult challenge. Their journey through Roo’s accident and her lengthy hospitalization is a powerful one, and their bond ultimately allows the novel to end on a positive, uplifting note. But I was left with the haunting certainty that Tilly has been made the scapegoat for a tragedy that was not her doing. And that part just didn’t ring true.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
The Good, and The Not So Good
By LAURI CRUMLEY COATES
Rice wrote this book for YAs, and they will find it interesting. The writing is fairly well done, and the story moves along well. However, I lowered my rating because I felt something was lacking in the ending. The lessons are good ones for all of us to learn....the dangers of texting (and reading texts) while driving. When a younger sister texts her older sister while the older is driving, the older answers the text while driving....and ends up in a serious accident. The problem I have is that no one tells the younger sister that this is not her fault.....and that's a shame. The older sister, of course, should have pulled over to answer, or not even read the text while driving to begin with. When we send a text, we believe that the person receiving it will act responsibly and not be careless. This just wasn't made a major point, and it should have been.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
could have been a good book, if it weren't for one major flaw (spoiler alert)
By dinglefest
This book is about two sisters in the aftermath of a couple tragedies. Before the book begins, their father has died, and shortly into the story, Tailly texts Roo and, while reading and responding to Tilly's text, Roo crashes her car. Told from each of their perspectives, including Roo's while she is assumed unconscious but actually isn't, this is meant to be a story of sisterhood, redemption, and reconciliation.
BUT.
Tilly is blamed by Roo's best friend and then her mother and then her school and then the media for being the one who caused the accident. Say what?!? She sent a text. Roo didn't have to read it. Roo didn't have to respond. Roo wasn't forced to be a distracted driver. She chose that. The book could have been so much better if it didn't continually shame a character who didn't deserve that. If just Roo's friend had blamed Tilly, that would have been acceptable and maybe made sense. But the confirmation of that again and again by people who should have been saying, "No, this isn't your fault. Please don't blame yourself. Roo made her own choice," was just too much.
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