Accidents of Nature Contributor(s): Johnson, Harriet McBryde (Author) |
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ISBN: 0805076344 ISBN-13: 9780805076349 Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: May 2006 Annotation: Seventeen-year-old Jean has cerebral palsy, and has never really known another disabled person before she arrives at Camp Courage. As Jean joins a community unlike any she has ever imagined, she comes to question her old beliefs and look at the world in a new light. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Friendship - Young Adult Fiction | Disabilities & Special Needs |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2005024598 |
Age Level: 12-18 |
Grade Level: 7-13 |
Lexile Measure: 690(Not Available) |
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.9" W x 8.6" L (1.00 lbs) 240 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age - Topical - Friendship - Topical - Physically Challenged |
Features: Dust Cover, Ikids, Price on Product |
Awards: Tayshas Reading, Commended, Young Adult, 2008 |
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 04/10/2006 pg. 72 Kirkus Review - Children 04/01/2006 pg. 349 School Library Journal 05/01/2006 pg. 130 Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 06/01/2006 pg. 458 - Recommended Booklist 07/01/2006 pg. 50 Voice of Youth Advocates 08/01/2006 pg. 247 - Recommended - Better Than Most Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2006 pg. 362 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw SLJ's Best Books 12/01/2006 pg. 39 ALA Best Books Young Adults 01/01/2007 pg. 1 |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 106126 Reading Level: 4.5 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 8.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: I'm in the middle of a full-blown spaz-attack, and I don't care. I don't care at all. At home I always try to act normal, and spaz-attacks definitely aren't normal. Here, people understand. They know a spaz-attack signals that I'm |
Contributor Bio(s): Johnson, Harriet McBryde: - Harriet McBryde Johnson has been a lawyer in Charleston, South Carolina, since 1985. Her solo practice emphasizes benefits and civil rights claims for poor and working people with disabilities. She is the author of Accidents of Nature and Too Late to Die Young. |
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