The Giant-Slayer
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When her eight-year-old neighbor is stricken with polio in 1955, eleven-year-old Laurie discovers that there is power in her imagination as she weaves a story during her visits with him and other patients confined to iron lung machines.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Delacorte Press, 2009.
Year Published: 2009
Description: 292 p. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
READING LEVEL
Lexile: 700
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780385733762
9780440239710
SUBJECTS
Poliomyelitis -- Fiction.
Storytelling -- Fiction.
Imagination -- Fiction.
People with disabilities -- Fiction.
Medical care -- Fiction.
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.