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A List of Things That Didn't Kill Me: A Memoir
Contributor(s): Schmidt, Jason (Author)

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 ISBN: 0374380139     ISBN-13: 9780374380137
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
OUR PRICE: $16.14  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2015
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Nonfiction | Social Topics - Physical & Emotional Abuse (see Also Social
- Young Adult Nonfiction | Family - Parents
- Young Adult Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography - General
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2014013170
Age Level: 14-18
Grade Level: 9-13
Lexile Measure: 890(Not Available)
Physical Information: 1.6" H x 5.9" W x 8.3" L (1.00 lbs) 432 pages
Features: Dust Cover, Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product
Awards: Tayshas Reading, Commended, Young Adult, 2016
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2014
Publishers Weekly 11/03/2014
Booklist 11/15/2014 pg. 35
Voice of Youth Advocates 02/01/2015 - Recommended - Better Than Most
School Library Journal 05/01/2015 pg. 142
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2015 pg. 211 - Recommended, Satisfactory
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 179328
Reading Level: 5.7   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 20.0
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:

Jason Schmidt wasn't surprised when he came home one day during his junior year of high school and found his father, Mark, crawling around in a giant pool of blood. Things like that had been happening a lot since Mark had been diagnosed with HIV, three years earlier.
Jason's life with Mark was full of secrets--about drugs, crime, and sex. If the straights--people with normal lives--ever found out any of those secrets, the police would come. Jason's home would be torn apart. So the rule, since Jason had been in preschool, was never to tell the straights anything.

A List of Things That Didn't Kill Me is a funny, disturbing memoir full of brutal insights and unexpected wit that explores the question: How do you find your moral center in a world that doesn't seem to have one?

Contributor Bio(s): Schmidt, Jason: - Jason Schmidt was born in Oregon in 1972. He has a law degree, and he lives with his family in Seattle, Washington.
 
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