SuitabookRecovery and panic
Lexi returns to school after being physically healed, but snowboarding triggers severe panic attacks.
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Mari Mancusi - Author
This appears to be a recovery-focused school story about panic, belonging and competing expectations. Snowboarding provides the central pressure, while singing and new friendships offer Lexi alternative ways to express herself.
A year later, Lexi s back at school, physically healed, but still mentally scarred. Every time she straps on her snowboard, severe panic attacks set in. To make matters worse, her best friend has turned her back on her, her archenemy on and off the slopes is determined to make her life miserable, and everyone is treating her like an outcast. The only person who seems to understand is Logan Conrad, a staff rat whose mother works on the mountain. Lexi finds herself drawn into his world just off the mountain, and discovers she has a knack for singing something her new friends encourage. But Lexi s dad who also happens to be her coach and lead instructor at school has different ideas about his daughter s new friends and talent. Will Lexi ever be able to figure out what exactly happened on the mountain a year ago while trying to balance her own dreams with the dreams her father has for her?
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis appears to be a recovery-focused school story about panic, belonging and competing expectations. Snowboarding provides the central pressure, while singing and new friendships offer Lexi alternative ways to express herself.
Lexi returns to school after being physically healed, but snowboarding triggers severe panic attacks.
Lexi’s best friend rejects her, an archenemy targets her, and Logan and other new friends provide connection.
Lexi’s father, who is also her coach and instructor, has different ideas about her new friends and singing talent.
The book may invite attention to panic attacks, feeling ostracised, a hostile rivalry and tension between Lexi’s wishes and her father’s plans.
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