Title: 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.
Subjects: Teenage boys, Male friendship, Fiction, Patients, Children with disabilities, Coma, Fiction, coming of age, Friendship, fiction