The giant-slayer
By: Iain Lawrence.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780385733762
Subjects: Poliomyelitis -- Fiction; Storytelling -- Fiction; Imagination -- Fiction; People with disabilities -- Fiction; Medical care -- Fiction; Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: When her eight-year-old neighbor is stricken with polio in 1955, eleven-year-old Laurie discovers that there is power in her imagination as she weaves a story during her visits with him and other patients confined to iron lung machines.