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| Genre/Form: | Fiction Juvenile fiction |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Fiction, Juvenile audience |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Terry Trueman |
| ISBN: | 0060285192 9780060285197 0060285184 9780060285180 |
| OCLC Number: | 41924732 |
| Notes: | Companion to: Cruise control. Sequel: Life happens next. |
| Awards: | Michael L. Printz Honor for Excellence in Young Adult Literature, 2001. |
| Description: | ix, 114 p. ; 20 cm. |
| Responsibility: | Terry Trueman. |
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Abstract:
Fourteen-year-old Shawn McDaniel, who suffers from severe cerebral palsy and cannot function, relates his perceptions of his life, his family, and his condition, especially as he believes his father is planning to kill him.
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Washington Reads (Spring 2007) Selection
Fourteen-year-old Shawn McDaniel has no control of his body or its functions, as he has cerebral palsy. He has a remarkable memory, mature insight and humor, but no one knows that. He loves life, and panics when he believes his father wants to kill him to end, what his father sees as suffering and pain....
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Fourteen-year-old Shawn McDaniel has no control of his body or its functions, as he has cerebral palsy. He has a remarkable memory, mature insight and humor, but no one knows that. He loves life, and panics when he believes his father wants to kill him to end, what his father sees as suffering and pain. Grades 5 – 10.For further information about the Washington State Library Washington Reads program, see our website at http://www.secstate.wa.gov/library/wa_reads.aspx
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A nice addition to any library.
Excellent story of a 14 year old in a wheel chair with cerebral palsy and the family life around him. No one communicates with him, they thingk he can't understand - but he thinks and "talks" like a 14 year old. Excellent book for the upper grade levels.
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