Title: An American summer
First published: 2002
Description: In 1954, fourteen-year-old Christy Bannister becomes friends with twenty-three-year-old Kathryn Slade, a polio victim who lives in an iron lung.
Subjects: Teenage boys, Fiction, Patients, Young women, Friendship, Large type books, Fiction, general, Fiction, medical, Fiction, historical, general, Baltimore (md.), fiction, Friendship, fiction, Poliomyelitis
Places: Baltimore (Md.), Poliomyelitis