Title: Because She's My Friend
First published: 1993
Description: Mutual need creates an intense, difficult friendship between fourteen-year-old Teri, the well-behaved "baby" of an extended Italian American family, and spoiled Valerie, who has one leg paralyzed from a freak accident.
Subjects: Fiction, Friendship, People with disabilities, Italian Americans, Children's fiction, Italian americans, fiction
LC classification: PZ7.S6217 Be 1993