Sam
Subtitle: the boy behind the mask
By: Tom Hallman.
Publisher: Putnam's
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
First sentence: A movie flickers on the screen set up in front of the chalkboard, but almost none of the twenty-eight eighth-graders pay attention.
Description: Explores the life of Sam Lightner, a boy born with a disfigurement that distorted the left side of his face, from the operation to remove the malformation, to his life-threatening coma, to his struggle back to life.