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Powerful fiction from National Book Award-winning author Nolan. Fifteen-year-old Jason has fallen on bad times--his mother has died and his father has succumbed to mental illness. As he tries to hold his father and their crumbling home together, Jason relies on a host of imaginary friends for guidance.
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Review:
* "Nolan leavens this haunting but hopeful story with spot-on humor and a well developed cast of characters, and she shows with moving clarity the emotional costs of mental illness, especially on teens forced to parent their own parents."--"Booklist", starred review
About the Author:
* "In this distinct and effective blend of sorrow and humor, Jason, once invisible to his classmates and used to the chaos at home, suffers the effects of change when he's enrolled in a lunch-hour group therapy with other wayward teens and his father is taken away...he slowly learns, with the help of his new friends and foster parents, normalcy and how to care for himself first."--"Kirkus Reviews, " starred review
HAN NOLAN is the author of the National Book Award winner "Dancing on the Edge, " the National Book Award finalist "Send Me Down a Miracle," "Born Blue," and several other acclaimed novels. She and her husband live in the South.
www.hannolan.com
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- PublisherPERFECTION LEARNING CORP
- ISBN 10 1613833040
- ISBN 13 9781613833049
- BindingPaperback
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