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Joe Speedboat / Tommy Wieringa ; translated from the Dutch by Sam Garrett.
Van Pelt Library PT5881.33.I434 J65 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wieringa, Tommy, 1967-
- Standardized Title:
- Joe Speedboot. English
- Language:
- Dutch
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children with disabilities--Fiction.
- Children with disabilities.
- Male friendship--Fiction.
- Male friendship.
- Teenage boys--Fiction.
- Teenage boys.
- Coma--Patients--Fiction.
- Coma.
- Coma--Patients.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Bildungsromans.
- Physical Description:
- 319 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Black Cat, [2009]
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Dutch.
- Summary:
- After surviving a coma, 13-year-old Frankie Hermans is left paralyzed, mute, and bound to a wheelchair. He sees his life as hopeless until he meets Joe Speedboat, a new boy in town whose sheer kinetic energy and boundless enthusiasm gives Frankie--and the rest of his sleepy Dutch town--a new lease on life.
- ISBN:
- 9780802170729
- 0802170722
- OCLC:
- 460054426
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