Deenie
When Deenie finds out that she has scoliosis, she’s scared. When she sees the brace for the first time, she wants to scream.But the words won’t come out. And Deenie, beautiful Deenie, who everyone says should be a model, is stuck wearing a brace from her neck to her hips. For four years—or...
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When Deenie finds out that she has scoliosis, she’s scared. When she sees the brace for the first time, she wants to scream.But the words won’t come out. And Deenie, beautiful Deenie, who everyone says should be a model, is stuck wearing a brace from her neck to her hips. For four years—or longer. She never worried about how she looked before—how will she ever face the hard times ahead?
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780385739856 (0385739850)
Publish date: April 13th 2010
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Pages no: 144
Edition language: English
Thanks to Jeff Dunham I can no longer take the word 'scoliosis' seriously, which made me feel really awful while reading this book, as it's absolutely meant as a serious book! Drat that comedian!That aside I really liked the book. Judy Blume approached a serious subject that not many people know any...
This Judy Blume book really stands out in my mind from all the others. It tells the storie of Deenie, a pretty teenage girl with model potential diagnosed with scoliosis. Deenie must come to terms with the fact that she will not have a modeling career and what's worse she'll have to wear a bulky b...
I remember reading this book and then was convinced that I had scoliosis. Little did I realize at that time a girl in the grade above actually did have scoliosis but had surgery for it, not the brace. It was a confusing time indeed.
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