Probably Still Nick Swansen: A Novel - Softcover

Wolff, Virginia Euwer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0590431463 ISBN 13: 9780590431460

Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks, 1997

Synopsis

Fifteen-year-old special ed student Nick Swansen struggles to overcome his learning disabilities and prove himself to his family, teachers, friends, and above all, to himself

About this title

About the Author:

Virginia Euwer Wolff is also the author of Probably Still Nick Swansen, The Mozart Season, and Bat 6. She is now at work on the third and final book about LaVaughn. Ms. Wolff lives in Oregon City, Oregon.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 6-10 A strong, compassionate story about a student with minimal brain dysfunction. While all 16 year olds have problems, Nick Swansen's are unique: they involve his identity outside the Special Education classroom and coming to terms with the accidental death of his sister, Dianne, seven years earlier. Told from his viewpoint, the story follows the events of several seminal weeks in Nick's maturing. Readers come to identify strongly with him and with Shana, another Special Ed. student who has ``gone up'' to the regular classes. The parents of both students provide a revealing contrast: Nick's are warm and understanding, Shana's stumbling and confused. The brilliance in Wolff's book is that she never preaches: rather, through a series of involving events and through characterizations that are consistently sympathetic, she draws readers into Nick's life. Unlike many books that deal with disabilities, Wolff's story stresses the similarities between Nick and other teens rather than highlighting the differences. Constance A. Mellon, Department of Library & Information Studies, East Carolina Univ., Greenville, N.C.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0590431463
• ISBN 13: 9780590431460
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 175