This is not surprising as Gerber herself wore a corrective back brace. Many of the scenes in this book really resonated with me I felt that Gerber accurately depicted the emotions of trying to find clothes, telling friends, and adapting to life in a brace. What follows is the intense roller coaster of emotions that accompany her having to wear this brace 23 out of every 24 hours. She soon finds herself having to wear a back brace to help correct her Scoliosis in an effort to avoid surgery, which her mother has had. Everything.īRACED is the story of Rachel Brooks, who is a devoted soccer player that has a family history of Scoliosis – Scoliosis can run in families. At the time when I was a teen, the only book I had was DEENIE by Judy Blume, which meant everything to me. I can think of very few books that tackle the topic of Scoliosis and what it is like to wear a corrective brace. So I was very interested in reading BRACED by Alyson Gerber. I mostly just remember the brace itself, the way it made me feel about my body, and my attempts to keep it hidden like some deep, dark secret. I don’t remember my doctors or any office visits. I suppose, looking back, I’m lucky he didn’t break his hand, or at least a finger or two. He did and got the surprise of his life as his fist met the resistance of my fiberglass brace.
Instead of begging no, please don’t punch me, I got this evil Grinch smile on my face – you know, the one where the Grinch decided he’s going to go down to Whoville and steal all the presents – and I told him go ahead, punch me his hardest right in my stomach. I don’t remember what it was about, all I remember is that he said he was going to punch me in the stomach.
One day as we walked to school, a boy and I got into some type of altercation.
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