Accidents of Nature Contributor(s): Johnson, Harriet McBryde (Author) |
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ISBN: 0805076344 ISBN-13: 9780805076349 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company OUR PRICE: $19.79 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats 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 |
Lexile Measure: 690 |
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.9" W x 8.6" (1.00 lbs) 240 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age - Topical - Friendship - Topical - Physically Challenged |
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. |