Kate McGovern
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Maple Mehta-Cohen has been keeping a secret: she can't read all that well. She has an impressive vocabulary and loves dictating stories into her recorder--especially the adventures of a daring sleuth who's half Indian and half Jewish like Maple herself--but words on the page just don't seem to make sense to her. Despite all Maple's clever tricks to hide her troubles with reading, her teacher is on to her, and now Maple has to repeat fifth grade....
Author
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Description
Astrid's cancer has returned. It's an "astrocytoma," a tumor in her brain. She hears about a radical technology called cryopreservation that may allow her to have her body frozen until a future time when-- and if-- a cure is available. With her boyfriend, Mohit, and her best friend, Chloe, Astrid goes on a road trip in search of that possibility. To see if it's real. To see if it's worth it. For fear of missing out on everything. -- adapted from jacket...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
820L
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Rose Levenson must decide whether or not she wants to take the test to find out if she has Huntington's disease, the degenerative disease that is slowly killing her mother"--
