Striving to find "The Body in the Woods" by April Henry

          The Body in the Woods by April Henry is a book about three characters, Alexis, Nick, and Ruby. They're all apart of a program called SAR or in other words, search and rescue. They all were called into SAR to look for an autistic man that got lost in the woods but instead, they end up finding a dead body of a teenaged girl and their mission is to find the killer but also balance their lives at home. I think that the theme in this book is to never give up. I think this because they were always striving to find more evidence even if they weren't supposed to and even if things got hard at their homes or they didn't feel like they were good enough, they still did what had to be done. Alexis always stayed with the fear of, "Was her mom asleep? Gone? With someone? Dead?" because she had a mental illness but she keeps on going in life and joins SAR to get good college applications. Ruby had to deal with her parents not wanting her to be "exposed to stuff like that in real life," because as she's in SAR, she is exposed to dead people but she fights so she could be in it. Nick want to be in the military but struggles with the fear of not being brave enough but he joins SAR to fight that fear so he can prove that he's worthy enough to join the military.

          People can relate to this because people always have other people trying to bring them down. You can't let was other people say stop you from doing something that you really love.