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If you stretch a rubber band far enough, it will break--pure and simple. Matthew feels as if his life is at that breaking point. No matter how many hours he spends bent over books for his classes at the conservative religious school to which his father has sent him, concepts and words blur in his mind, causing him to fail exam after exam. He's flunking out, but that's the least of his worri... More

If you stretch a rubber band far enough, it will break--pure and simple. Matthew feels as if his life is at that breaking point. No matter how many hours he spends bent over books for his classes at the conservative religious school to which his father has sent him, concepts and words blur in his mind, causing him to fail exam after exam. He's flunking out, but that's the least of his worries. What will happen when his father, a preacher of the fire-and-brimstone variety, finds out? Imagine the worst: Matthew becomes completely unstrung from the overwhelming stress of his father's expectations. During a frightening emotional breakdown, school officials cart Matthew off to a local mental institution even before his father arrives to claim him. What happens to Matthew next makes for one of the most moving stories ever written about a teen trying to find his own way after disappointing a parent. Broken, snapped like a rubber band, unable to talk, unable to care for himself, Matthew is rescued by his brother Zach--a black sheep if ever there was one--and taken to a Colorado ranch for healing. But does Zach have what it takes to bring his brother back to life? Matthew and Zach's story will challenge and warm the hearts of any teen who has felt the pressure of having to live up to a dream that was never his or her own.

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