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Please pay attention / Jamie Sumner.

Sumner, Jamie. (Author).

Summary:

After surviving a school shooting that left her feeling helpless in her wheelchair, Bea finds healing and empowerment through horseback riding therapy and begins to advocate for change.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781665956079 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 228 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2025.

Content descriptions

Target Audience Note:
Ages 10 up.
Subject: People with disabilities > Juvenile fiction.
Horsemanship for people with disabilities > Juvenile fiction.
Psychic trauma > Juvenile fiction.
School shootings > Juvenile fiction.
Genre: Novels in verse.

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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  • B & T Entertainment
    Following a school shooting, eighth grader Bea Coughlin navigates loss, grief, trauma and the helplessness she felt in her wheelchair as others took cover, learning through therapeutic horseback riding to find her voice and the bravery to demand change. Simultaneous eBook.
  • Baker & Taylor
    After surviving a school shooting that left her feeling helpless in her wheelchair, Bea finds healing and empowerment through horseback riding therapy and begins to advocate for change.
  • Simon and Schuster
    Three starred reviews!

    A girl with cerebral palsy navigates loss, grief, and the aftermath of trauma following a school shooting in a world that wasn’t built for her in this “intimate, lyrical” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) novel in verse from Jamie Sumner, the acclaimed author of Roll with It.

    There is a Before and an After for sixth grader Bea Coughlin. Before the shooting at her school that took the lives of her classmates and teacher and After, when she must figure out how to grieve, live, and keep rolling forward. But as her community rallies in a tidal wave of marches and speeches and protests, Bea can’t get past the helplessness she felt in her wheelchair as others around her took cover.

    Through the help of therapeutic horseback riding, Bea finally begins to feel like herself again. And as she heals, she finds her voice and the bravery to demand change.

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