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Wheels for Walking

Published
Sep 1987
Main Genre
General Fiction General Fiction
Pages
221

About This Book

Sally and Brian are in love. But at the end of a wonderful ski weekend together, a car accident leaves Sally fully paralyzed for life.

This powerful, honest book tells of Sally's struggle immediately following the accident as she goes through rehabilitation. Her anger, her flirtation with drugs, and a dangerously angry fellow patient, and her slow, hesitant journey to finding a way to live with her new reality make this one of the strongest portraits of a life-transforming disability ever published for young adults. Yet the story and the author's life offer hope. Far too many young people continue to become paraplegic and quadriplegic in car accidents, diving accidents and other risk-taking behavior.

This book lays no blame and makes no promises. But it shows that a way forward can be found.

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Mar 1988 Signet ISBN 0451152352
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Sep 2009 Groundwood Books ISBN 088899866X
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First Edition Sep 1987 Little, Brown ISBN 0316744395
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Oct 1985 Grove Press ISBN 0871130416
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Jan 1990 Groundwood Books ISBN B00IN8OVLU
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Jan 1990 Groundwood Books ISBN 1554981913
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