Braced, Alyson Gerber
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Braced, Alyson Gerber
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Braced
Responsibility statement
Alyson Gerber
Summary
When twelve-year-old Rachel learns that her scoliosis has worsened and she will need to wear a back brace to keep her spine straight, she is devastated; afraid that she will not be able to play soccer, and terrified that she will not be able to hide her condition from her friends and classmates--but her mother is determined to spare her the spinal fusion surgery that she herself had as a teenager
Target audience
adolescent
Classification
Creator
Genre
Subject
- Mothers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction
- Scoliosis in children -- Juvenile fiction
- Young adult fiction
- Fiction
- Families -- Massachusetts -- Andover -- Juvenile fiction
- Orthopedic braces -- Juvenile fiction
- Genetic disorders -- Juvenile fiction
- Self-consciousness (Sensitivity) -- Juvenile fiction
- Andover (Mass.) -- Juvenile fiction
Content
Author
Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Creator1
- Genre1
- Subject9
- Mothers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction
- Scoliosis in children -- Juvenile fiction
- Young adult fiction
- Fiction
- Families -- Massachusetts -- Andover -- Juvenile fiction
- Orthopedic braces -- Juvenile fiction
- Genetic disorders -- Juvenile fiction
- Self-consciousness (Sensitivity) -- Juvenile fiction
- Andover (Mass.) -- Juvenile fiction
- Content1
- Author1