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Title:

Braced

Author:

Gerber, Alyson, author.

ISBN:

9780545902144

Edition:

First edition.

Physical Description:

287 pages ; 22 cm

Abstract:

When twelve-year-old Rachel learns that her scoliosis has worsened and she will need to wear a back brace to keep her spine straight, she is devastated; afraid that she will not be able to play soccer, and terrified that she will not be able to hide her condition from her friends and classmates--but her mother is determined to spare her the spinal fusion surgery that she herself had as a teenager.

Subject Term:

Scoliosis in children -- Juvenile fiction.

Genetic disorders -- Juvenile fiction.

Orthopedic braces -- Juvenile fiction.

Mothers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction.

Self-consciousness (Sensitivity) -- Juvenile fiction.

Families -- Massachusetts -- Andover -- Juvenile fiction.

Scoliosis -- Fiction.

Orthopedic braces -- Fiction.

Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.

Self-consciousness (Sensitivity) -- Fiction.

Family life -- Massachusetts -- Andover -- Fiction.