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Greenwillow Books (1987), Edition: 1st, 224 pages
Description
A high school athlete, frustrated at being handicapped after an accident, runs away from home and is helped back to mental and physical health by a black benefactor and the people in a special school where he enrolls.
Original publication date
1987
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LibraryThing member winkinkwriting
interesting book about a boy in a white suburban and/or rural town who is in an accident that transforms him from sports-type-popular guy to outcast perceived as a loser. He leaves his all American town and moves to the slums in CA--near SF and finds himself through his ability to survive and be
I love the concept that diversity breeds the betterment of the character, and of all kids. However, I don't know how realistic the sitch is. Would a school whose hero becomes physically challenged (non pc term is crippled, and is ostracized by the whole school. I don't think that would happen. It didn't in our town under similar circumstances.
Still the book brings up excellent issues and is a page turner.
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happy where he is, in a diverse area.I love the concept that diversity breeds the betterment of the character, and of all kids. However, I don't know how realistic the sitch is. Would a school whose hero becomes physically challenged (non pc term is crippled, and is ostracized by the whole school. I don't think that would happen. It didn't in our town under similar circumstances.
Still the book brings up excellent issues and is a page turner.
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LibraryThing member biblyotekerin
A teenage boy who has everything -- great athlete, good looks, wonderful girlfriend, etc., -- struggles to deal with the radical change in his life when he is partially crippled in a freak accident.
LibraryThing member DragonFreak
Willie is on top of the word when he wins the baseball game of the season dubbed The Crazy Horse Electric Game. He’s invincible, he’s unstoppable, he’s untouchable. That is until the accident that left him hopelessly crippled. He can hardly move, hardly talk, and there is hardly a thing he
He ends up quite by chance at OMLC High School. The letters stand for One More Last Chance, and are a place where people with mental and physical disabilities go to be helped and nurtured. There he starts to feel more and better, but what is waiting for him elsewhere? Willie is not the same person as he was at the time of the Crazy Horse Electric Game.
This one was kind of a dud book, and I knew it was going to be. It wasn’t bad by any means of the sense, but compared to the other Crutcher books, it fell flat. But like I said, it wasn’t bad at all.
Rating: Three and a Half Stars *** ½
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can do about it. And while he’s crippled, he sees his perfect, non-fighting mother and father slowly drive each other away, and his girlfriend cheat on him. And there is nothing he can do about it. So he runs away.He ends up quite by chance at OMLC High School. The letters stand for One More Last Chance, and are a place where people with mental and physical disabilities go to be helped and nurtured. There he starts to feel more and better, but what is waiting for him elsewhere? Willie is not the same person as he was at the time of the Crazy Horse Electric Game.
This one was kind of a dud book, and I knew it was going to be. It wasn’t bad by any means of the sense, but compared to the other Crutcher books, it fell flat. But like I said, it wasn’t bad at all.
Rating: Three and a Half Stars *** ½
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Pages
224