Deenie

Scoliosis twists Deenie's plans for seventh grade in this classic Judy Blume novel with a fresh new look.

Deenie's mother wants her to be a model, with her face on magazine covers--maybe even in the movies--but Deenie wants to spend Saturdays with her friends Janet and Midge, tracking Harvey Grabowsky, the captain of the football team, around Woolworth's. She wants to be a cheerleader, too, and go to the seventh-grade mixer to hear Buddy Brader play his drums.

Instead, Deenie is diagnosed with scoliosis. And that means body stockings to squeeze into, a roomful of strangers to face, and a terrifying brace that she'll need to wear for years that goes from her neck to her hips. Suddenly Deenie has to cope with a kind of specialness that's frightening--and might be hers forever.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: 04/29/2014
ISBN: 9781481414418
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.80w x 0.90d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 18808 / Deenie
Reading Level: 4.2 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 5