In this compelling and compulsively readable memoir,
nineteen-year-old Paige Rawl tells the story of how she was
mercilessly bullied in middle school and how she overcame the
ordeal to change her world for the better.
In this astonishing memoir, Paige tells a story that is both
deeply personal and completely universal one that will resonate
deeply with the thousands of children and adults whose lives have
been touched by bullying.
Paige Rawl has been HIV positive since birth but growing up, she
never felt like her illness defined her. It never prevented her
from entering beauty pageants or playing soccer or making the honor
role.
On an unremarkable day in middle school, while attempting to
console a friend, Paige disclosed her HIV-positive status and
within hours the bullying began. She was called PAIDS, first in
whispers, then out in the open. Her soccer coach joked that she was
an asset because opposing team members would be too afraid to touch
her. Her guidance counselor told her to stop all the drama, and her
principal said she couldn t protect her. One night, desperate for
escape, Paige swallowed fifteen sleeping pills one for each year of
her life to date. That could have been the end of her story;
instead, it was only the beginning.
The gripping first-person account of Paige s life will pull in
even the most reluctant readers of nonfiction, and her call to
action to choose compassion over cruelty will stay with them long
after they turn the last page."
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