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Twelve year old Catherine wants a normal life, but she feels that’s out of her grasp as the older sister of an autistic boy. This summer Catherine meets Jason, a slightly older boy in a wheelchair with a communication board. And she meets her new next door neighbor Kristi.
“Sometimes I wish someone would invent a pill so David’d wake up one morning without autism, like someone waking from a long coma, and he’d say, “Jeez, Catherine, where have I been?” And he’d be a regular brother like Melissa ...more
“Sometimes I wish someone would invent a pill so David’d wake up one morning without autism, like someone waking from a long coma, and he’d say, “Jeez, Catherine, where have I been?” And he’d be a regular brother like Melissa ...more
Great story. I look forward to my daughters finishing this one so we can talk about it. I felt it was a good interpretation of the realities of a child dealing with an autistic sibling. The characters and reactions all seemed very realistic.
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