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Author:

Elkeles, Simone.

Title:

Leaving Paradise / Simone Elkeles.

Publisher:

Flux,

Copyright Date:

2009, c2007

Description:

303 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

People with disabilities--Fiction.
High schools--Fiction.
Schools--Fiction.
Family problems--Fiction.
Secrets--Fiction.
Old age--Fiction.
Self-actualization (Psychology)--Fiction.
Children's stories.
People with disabilities--Juvenile fiction.
Family secrets--Juvenile fiction.
Old age--Juvenile fiction.
Self-actualization (Psychology)--Juvenile fiction.
Drunk driving--Fiction.
Teenage boy/girl relations--Fiction.
Traffic accidents--Fiction.
Intergenerational relations--Fiction.

Summary:

In alternating chapters, seventeen-year-olds Caleb and Maggie relate the difficulties of readjusting to school, and changing relationships with family, friends, and one another, a year after a drunk driving accident sent her to the hospital with a crippling leg injury and him to prison.

ISBN:

0738710180 (pbk.)
9780738710181 (pbk.) :

OCLC:

(OCoLC)427564250

Locations:

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)