Read the stars as three and a half, please.
Harry Roth is the son of a rabbi and a bully. Alison Shandling is the twin of an autistic boy Adam. Harry abuses anyone who might come close enough to see that he is grieving his mother. When he becomes a paraplegic in a diving accident, Alison takes him on as a project, while his father the rabbi teaches Adam Hebrew.
This slight book for younger teens is surprisingly effecting. This is Werlin's first novel, my second of hers.
Harry Roth is the son of a rabbi and a bully. Alison Shandling is the twin of an autistic boy Adam. Harry abuses anyone who might come close enough to see that he is grieving his mother. When he becomes a paraplegic in a diving accident, Alison takes him on as a project, while his father the rabbi teaches Adam Hebrew.
This slight book for younger teens is surprisingly effecting. This is Werlin's first novel, my second of hers.
