Gadget Girl
Subtitle: the art of being invisible
By: Suzanne Kamata
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781936846382
Subjects: Fiction; Juvenile fiction; Single-parent families; Comic books, strips; Coming of age; People with disabilities; Artists; Mothers and daughters; Cartoons and comics; Cerebral palsy
Description: Aiko Cassidy, a fourteen-year-old with cerebral palsy, tired of posing for the sculptures that have made her mother famous, dreams of going to Japan to meet her father and become a great manga artist, but takes a life-changing trip to Paris, instead.
Notes: "Gadget Girl began as a novella published in Cicada. The story won the SCBWI Magazine Merit Award in Fiction and was included in an anthology of the best stories published in Cicada over the past ten years"--Provided by publisher.