Project Wheels - Hardcover

Banks, Jacqueline Turner

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395643783 ISBN 13: 9780395643785

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1993

Synopsis

Angela has difficulty adjusting to the changes of junior high school, until she and her friends--Faye, Tommy, and the twins Judge and Jury--work together on a project to raise money to buy a motorized wheelchair for a classmate.

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About the Author

Jacqueline Turner Banks is the author of three previous young adult novels, Project Wheels, The New One, and Egg-Drop Blues, all of which feature the animated exploits of the Posse. Formerly a teacher, Ms. Banks now devotes herself full-time as a writer and literary agent. She lives with her family in Sacramento, California.

From Kirkus Reviews

Now that they're in sixth grade, Angela and her small-town Kentucky friends are discovering raging hormones that complicate their relationships, their party plans, and their class Christmas project. Meanwhile, Angela's friend Faye (or is she a former friend?) wants their class to raise money to buy a motorized wheelchair for Wayne, a paralyzed classmate; the project must be kept secret from Wayne himself while the other kids try to raise $1,000, which requires a lot of planning, work, and cooperation. Since Faye develops a crush on a different boy every week or two, alliances are in a constant and confusing state of flux; still, all ends well. Angela is a likable narrator whose tone is light even when she's discussing insincere born-again Christianity, racism, or her father's problems in coming to terms with her puberty. Not first-rate, but a readable, pleasant additional purchase. (Fiction. 9-12) -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0395643783
• ISBN 13: 9780395643785
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 107