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Crazy Beautiful by Lauren Baratz-Logsted is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Crazy Beautiful about?
<p><P><i><P></i><P>In an explosion of his own making, Lucius blew his arms off. Now he has hooks. He chose hooks because they were cheaper. He chose hooks because he wouldn’t outgrow them so quickly. He chose hooks so that everyone would know he was different, so he would scare even himself.<P>Then he meets Aurora. The hooks don’t scare her. They don’t keep her away. In fact, they don’t make any difference at all to her.<P>But to Lucius, they mean everything. They remind him of the beast he is inside. Perhaps Aurora is his Beauty, destined to set his soul free from its suffering.<P>Or maybe she’s just a girl who needs love just like he does.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Baratz-Logsted's modern take on Beauty and the Beast is told from the alternating points of view of two sophomores as they begin class at a new school. Beautiful, kind Aurora is immediately absorbed into the popular crowd; she and her father, the school librarian, are especially close following the death of her mother a few months earlier. Lucius's family is more troubled: since he exploded chemicals in his basement last year, blowing up part of his house as well as his forearms,
Who reads Crazy Beautiful?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Lauren Baratz-Logsted
- Publisher
- Graphia/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780547391618
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Children'S, Fiction, Young Adult
- Rating
- 3.37 / 5 (1,566 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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