| My Thirteenth Winter Contributor(s): Abeel, Samantha (Author) |
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ISBN: 0439339057 ISBN-13: 9780439339056 Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks OUR PRICE: $8.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2005 Annotation: Samantha Abeel dreads school, and begins having anxiety attacks. In her 13th winter, she finds the courage to confront her problems--and is diagnosed with a learning disability. Slowly, Samantha's life begins to change again, and she discovers that she is stronger than she'd ever thought possible. Young Adult. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography - General - Juvenile Nonfiction | Disabilities & Special Needs |
| Dewey: B |
| Lexile Measure: 1050 |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 5.58" W x 8.31" (0.37 lbs) 203 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 73836 Reading Level: 7.1 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 9.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this beautiful and chilling memoir, twenty-five-year-old Samantha Abeel describes her struggles with a math-related learning disability, and how it forced her to find inner strength and courage.Samantha Abeel couldn't tell time, remember her locker combination, or count out change at a checkout counter -- and she was in seventh grade. For a straight-A student like Samantha, problems like these made no sense. She dreaded school, and began having anxiety attacks. In her thirteenth winter, she found the courage to confront her problems -- and was diagnosed with a learning disability. Slowly, Samantha's life began to change again. She discovered that she was stronger than she'd ever thought possible -- and that sometimes, when things look bleakest, hope is closer than you think. |