Author

Publication

2002 - Sourcebooks, Naperville, Ill, Illinois

Language

English

Word Count

57,250 words, Guess

Page Count

229 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
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  • LibraryThing383096

Classifications

  • DDC813/.54
  • LCCPS3554.E37 A83 2002

Description

In 1954, fourteen-year-old Christy Bannister becomes friends with twenty-three-year-old Kathryn Slade, a polio victim who lives in an iron lung.

First Sentence

The news from Michigan was so stunning that, at school, it was broadcast over the P.A. into all our classrooms: Dr. Salk's vaccine worked.

Excerpt

The news from Michigan was so stunning that, at school, it was broadcast over the P.A. into all our classrooms: Dr. Salk's vaccine worked.

Subjects

Genres

  • Fiction.

Other Editions

  • An American summer: a novelSourcebooks2002-01-01

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