The wonder kid
By: by George Harrar ; [illustrated by] Anthony Winiarski.
Contributors: Winiarski, Anthony, ill.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Poliomyelitis -- Fiction; Fathers and sons -- Fiction; Friendship -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In the summer of 1954, eleven-year-old Jesse James MacLean contracts polio, but with a friend's help and despite his unsympathetic father, he finds ways to prove that his spirit is still strong.
Notes: "A portion of this novel first appeared in Dickinson Review, 1999."