Falling Over Sideways
Harassed at her middle school, not taken seriously at home, and with a "perfect" older brother, Matthew, to live up to, thirteen-year-old Claire has always felt like her life was cursed--then one morning, when she are her beloved father are talking at breakfast, her father suddenly falls over with a stroke, and suddenly everything changes.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 47
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 860
subjects: cerebrovascular disease, children of parents with disabilities, fathers and daughters, mothers and daughters, brothers and sisters, stroke [X], father-daughter relationship, mother-daughter relationship, siblings, family life, middle schools [X], school stories
Worser
"William Wyatt Orser's life is turned upside down after his mother has a stroke, but the socially awkward, word-loving twelve-year-old finds glimmers of hope when he discovers friends who share his love of wordplay and books"--OCLC.
FIC
year: 2023
copies: 20
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: change, vocabulary, plays on words, cerebrovascular disease, aunts, mothers, friendship, bookstores, middle schools [X], schools, semantics, school stories, stroke [X], school fiction