Collection
Publication
Scholastic Paperbacks (2008), Edition: Reprint, 224 pages
Description
Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with a young paraplegic.
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Original publication date
2006
Awards
Nebraska Golden Sower Award (Honor — 2009)
Wyoming Indian Paintbrush Award (Nominee — 2009)
Young Hoosier Book Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 2009)
Massachusetts Children's Book Award (Honor — 2010)
Sequoyah Book Award (Nominee — Young Adult — 2009)
Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award (Nominee — 2009)
Triple Crown Awards (Nominee — 2009)
Georgia Children's Book Award (Finalist — 2009)
Great Stone Face Book Award (Nominee — 2008)
Utah Beehive Book Award (Nominee — Children's Fiction — 2009)
Kentucky Bluegrass Award (Nominee — Grades 6-8 — 2008)
Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (Nominee — 2009)
Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award (Nominee — 2009)
Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award (Nominee — Junior — 2009)
Buckeye Children's & Teen Book Award (Nominee — Grades 6-8 — 2008)
William Allen White Children's Book Award (Nominee — Grades 6-8 — 2008-2009)
South Dakota Children's Book Awards (Nominee — 2009)
Newbery Medal (Honor Book — 2007)
Nutmeg Book Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 2010)
Great Lakes Great Books Award (Winner — 2009)
Vermont Golden Dome Book Award (Nominee)
Bluestem Award (Nominee — 2012)
Mark Twain Readers Award (Nominee — 2009)
Sunshine State Young Reader's Award (Nominee — 2009)
Nēnē Award (Nominee — 2008)
Grand Canyon Reader Award (Nominee — 2010)
California Young Reader Medal (Nominee — 2009)
West Virginia Children's Choice Book Award (Nominee — 2007-2008)
Iowa Children's Choice Award (Nominee — 2009)
Mitten Award (Winner — 2006)
NCSLMA Battle of the Books (Elementary — 2018)
Virginia Readers' Choice (Nominee — Elementary — 2009)
Black-Eyed Susan Book Award (Nominee — Grades 6-9 — 2009)
Colorado Children's Book Award (Nominee — 2009)
Skipping Stones Honor Award (2007)
Maud Hart Lovelace Award (Nominee — 2010)
Maine Student Book Award (Winner — 2008)
Schneider Family Book Award (Winner — Middle Grades — 2007)
CCBC Choices (2007)
Notable Children's Book (2007)
Language
Original language
English