Sixteen-year-old learning-disabled Nick struggles to endure a life in which the other kids make fun of him, he has to take special classes, his date for the prom makes an excuse not to go with him, and he is haunted by the memory of his older sister who drowned while he was watching.
year: 2002, 1988
call number/section: 1000
subjects: learning disabilities, fiction, self-acceptance, death, brothers and sisters, interpersonal relations, high schools
Editions
Wolff, Virginia Euwer
Simon Pulse (2002)
Sixteen-year-old learning-disabled Nick struggles to endure a life in which the other kids make fun of him, he has to take special classes, his date for the prom makes an excuse not to go with him, and he is haunted by the memory of his older sister who drowned while he was watching.
Schools: 1
Wolff, Virginia Euwer
H. Holt (1988)
Sixteen-year-old learning-disabled Nick struggles to endure a life in which the other kids make fun of him; he has to take special classes, his date for the prom makes an excuse not to go with him, and he is haunted by the memory of his older sister who drowned while he was watching.
Schools: 1
Wolff, Virginia Euwer
Nick, a learning disabled sixteen-year-old, copes with his anger and hurt at being labeled a Special Education student while also dealing with dating and the troubling memories of his drowned sister.
Schools: 1