H
By: Elizabeth Shepard
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780140243895
Subjects: Mentally ill children -- United States -- Fiction.; Mothers and sons -- United States -- Fiction.; Campus -- United States -- Fiction.; Boys -- United States -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: The world of a withdrawn child. He is Benjamin Sherman who shuns his peers and has a strong attachment to a toy, a stuffed letter H, which he treats as a companion and confidant. The novel follows the attempts of adults to take H away so as to make the boy normal. A first novel.
Notes: Originally published: New York, Viking, 1995.