Cruise Control

<p>How sick is this: I'm the major jock-stud in high school but my brother has the brain of a badminton birdie and a body to match. I've got everything and he's got nothing. I'm a three-year three-sport letterman and Shawn can't even stand up! Like I said sick huh? </p><p>It's hard to be a brother to someone who doesn't even know you're there. How can you talk to him when he can't understand a thing you say? How can you listen to him when he can't speak a word? How can you love him when he's so messed up he can't love you back? And how can you have a life of your own when your father bailed on the family leaving you to be the man of the house? </p><p>Fueled by rage at what has happened to his family Paul is ready to explode. And he is haunted by something even worse--something he can never tell anyone. It is something he will have to face if he is to have any hope of a future at all. While Cruise Control is a companion to Terry Trueman's Printz Honor book Stuck in Neutral it is the completely independent story of a family's other son--the one who is healthy gifted normal. It is a courageously hopeful story told with power compassion and humor. </p>