Pub Date: May 7, 2019
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2018034292
Lexile Code: 0900
Features: Dust Cover, Price on Product
Target Age Group: 10 to 14
Physical Info: 1.00" H x 8.30" L x 5.70" W ( 0.90 lbs) 288 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Friendship | Sports and Recreation | Water Sports | School and Education
Description: Learning disabilities make school painful for 13-year-old Annabelle, but a summer of swimming with the high-school team is fantastic--until a prank goes wrong, spoiling everything.
Brief description: Laurie Morrison taught middle school for ten years before writing Every Shiny Thing, her middle-grade debut with co-author Cordelia Jensen. She is also the author of Up for Air, Saint Ivy, and Coming Up Short. She received her MFA in writing for children and young adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She lives in Philadelphia.
Review Quotes: **STARRED REVIEW**
"An awesome swimmer with a frustrating learning disability struggles in the roiling waters of adolescence . . . Readers will root for [Annabelle] as she ricochets between ebullience and despair, empathy and hurt, confidence and doubt, pride and self-loathing--we've been there, too, or soon will be. Captures the turmoil of adolescence with wisdom and humor in near-pointillist detail."--Kirkus Reviews