The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors (Audiobook)

from Jenners26

Story Overview Becca Burke is first struck by lightning at the age of 8. Unfortunately, she is alone when it happens, and, because she is relatively unharmed, her parents doubt whether it actually happened. Yet though she is physically unharmed, the lightning strike changes Becca in mysterious wa...

from LCBrooks

Overall, I enjoyed The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors. Young-Stone's placement of excerpts from character Buckley R. Pitank's book for lightning strike survivors was clever, offered a nice visual break to the text, and gave context to some of the events in the novel. For two reasons I wo...

from amachiski

A great book and a perfect summer read! Despite it seeming on the long side it was still a quick and easy read. This coming of age story follows two seemingly unrelated kids as they navigate adolescence and a troubled family life. What links them, however, is lightning. Becca was struck by it and...

from HeathMochaFrost

(originally posted on my blog May 29, 2011) The unusual title caught my eye (of course), and I saw a lot of good buzz on Twitter when this book came out last year. Then, leading up to the release date for the paperback edition, Rebecca from The Book Lady's Blog offered up several copies of The Ha...

from bnbooklady

I love love loved The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors. The narrative voice is fresh, strong, and thoroughly engrossing, and it sticks with you. I read this book in three sittings (would have devoured it in one if I could have wrangled enough free time to do so) and found myself thinking a...