Accidents of Nature

I'm in the middle of a full-blown spaz-attack, and I don't care. I don't care at all....
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Author: Harriet McBryde Johnson
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Language: English
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Accidents of Nature by Johnson, Harriet McBryde

Accidents of Nature

$49.80

Accidents of Nature

$49.80
Author: Harriet McBryde Johnson
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

I'm in the middle of a full-blown spaz-attack, and I don't care. I don't care at all. At home I always try to act normal, and spaz-attacks definitely aren't normal. Here, people understand. They know a spaz-attack signals that I'm
excited. They're excited too, so they squeal with me; some even spaz on purpose, if you can call that spazzing . . .
An unforgettable coming-of-age novel about what it's like to live with a physical disability

It's the summer of 1970. Seventeen-year-old Jean has cerebral palsy, but she's always believed she's just the same as everyone else. She's never really known another disabled person before she arrives at Camp Courage. As Jean joins a community unlike any she has ever imagined, she comes to question her old beliefs and look at the world in a new light. The camp session is only ten days long, but that may be all it takes to change a life forever.

Henry Holt published Harriet McBryde Johnson's adult memoir, Too Late to Die Young, in April 2005. Ms. Johnson has been featured in The New York Times Magazine and has been an activist for disability rights for many years.

Author: Harriet McBryde Johnson
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 05/02/2006
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.90w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780805076349
Audience: Young Adult

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.5
Point Value: 8
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 106126 / Accidents of Nature


Award: Tayshas Reading - Commended


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/10/2006 pg. 72
Kirkus Review - Children 04/01/2006 pg. 349
School Library Journal 05/01/2006 pg. 130
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 06/01/2006 pg. 458 - Recommended
Booklist 07/01/2006 pg. 50
Voice of Youth Advocates 08/01/2006 pg. 247 - Recommended - Better Than Most
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2006 pg. 362 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw
SLJ's Best Books 12/01/2006 pg. 39
ALA Best Books Young Adults 01/01/2007 pg. 1

About the Author

Harriet McBryde Johnson has been a lawyer in Charleston, South Carolina, since 1985. Her solo practice emphasizes benefits and civil rights claims for poor and working people with disabilities. She is the author of Too Late to Die Young.




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