Joe Speedboat
By: Tommy Wieringa ; translated from the Dutch by Sam Garrett
Contributors: Garrett, Sam
Publisher: Black Cat
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9780802170729
Subjects: Teenage boys; Male friendship; Children with disabilities; Coma; Patients; Fiction
Work titles: Joe Speedboot
Description: After surviving a coma, 13-year-old Frankie Hermans is left paralyzed, mute, and bound to a wheelchair. He sees his life as hopeless until he meets Joe Speedboat, a new boy in town whose sheer kinetic energy and boundless enthusiasm gives Frankie--and the rest of his sleepy Dutch town--a new lease on life.
Notes: Translated from the Dutch.