| Stitches Contributor(s): Small, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393068579 ISBN-13: 9780393068573 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $23.76 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2009 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: The prize-winning children's author depicts a childhood from hell in this searing yet redemptive graphic memoir. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2009022526 |
| Physical Information: 1.14" H x 7.32" W x 9.22" (1.74 lbs) 329 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 137305 Reading Level: 3.2 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 1.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: One day David Small awoke from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he had been transformed into a virtual mute. A vocal cord removed, his throat slashed and stitched together like a bloody boot, the fourteen-year-old boy had not been told that he had throat cancer and was expected to die. Small, a prize-winning children's author, re-creates a life story that might have been imagined by Kafka. Readers will be riveted by his journey from speechless victim, subjected to X-rays by his radiologist father and scolded by his withholding and tormented mother, to his decision to flee his home at sixteen with nothing more than dreams of becoming an artist. Recalling Running with Scissors with its ability to evoke the trauma of a childhood lost, Stitches will transform adolescent and adult readers alike with its deeply liberating vision. |
Contributor Bio(s): Small, David: - David Small author of the #1 New York Times best-selling Stitches, is the recipient of the Caldecott Medal, the Christopher Medal, and the E. B. White Award. He and his wife, the writer Sarah Stewart, live in Michigan. |