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Braced / Alyson Gerber.

Gerber, Alyson. (Author).

Summary:

When twelve-year-old Rachel learns that her scoliosis has worsened and she will need to wear a back brace to keep her spine straight, she is devastated; afraid that she will not be able to play soccer, and terrified that she will not be able to hide her condition from her friends and classmates--but her mother is determined to spare her the spinal fusion surgery that she herself had as a teenager.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0545902142
  • ISBN: 9780545902144
  • Physical Description: 287 pages
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2017.

Content descriptions

Immediate Source of Acquisition Note:
LSC 22.99
Subject: Scoliosis in children > Juvenile fiction.
Genetic disorders > Juvenile fiction.
Orthopedic braces > Juvenile fiction.
Mothers and daughters > Juvenile fiction.
Self-consciousness (Sensitivity) > Juvenile fiction.
Families > Massachusetts > Andover > Juvenile fiction.
Andover (Mass.) > Juvenile fiction.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Lakeshore Branch J FIC Gerbe 31681020099750 JFIC Available -

Alyson Gerber is the author of critically acclaimed, own-voices novels Braced and Focused. She is a graduate of The New School’s MFA in Writing for Children and lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and daughter. Visit her at alysongerber.com and find her everywhere else at @alysongerber.


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