Please Pay Attention

Jamie Sumner (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2025
Atheneum Books for Young Readers (Verlag)
9781665956079 (ISBN)

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Three starred reviews!

A girl with cerebral palsy navigates loss, grief, and the aftermath of trauma following a school shooting in a world that wasn’t built for her in this “intimate, lyrical” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) novel in verse from Jamie Sumner, the acclaimed author of Roll with It.

There is a Before and an After for sixth grader Bea Coughlin. Before the shooting at her school that took the lives of her classmates and teacher and After, when she must figure out how to grieve, live, and keep rolling forward. But as her community rallies in a tidal wave of marches and speeches and protests, Bea can’t get past the helplessness she felt in her wheelchair as others around her took cover.

Through the help of therapeutic horseback riding, Bea finally begins to feel like herself again. And as she heals, she finds her voice and the bravery to demand change.

Jamie Sumner is the author of Roll with It, Time to Roll, Rolling On, Tune It Out, One Kid’s Trash, The Summer of June, Maid for It, Deep Water, Please Pay Attention, Schooled, and Glory Be. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other publications. She loves stories that celebrate the grit and beauty in all kids. She is also the mother of a son with cerebral palsy and has written extensively about parenting a child with special needs. She and her family live in Nashville, Tennessee. Visit her at Jamie-Sumner.com.

Erscheinungsdatum	04.02.2025
Zusatzinfo	f-c jkt (fx: spot gloss; matte film); digital
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 210 mm
Gewicht	324 g
Themenwelt	Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Sachbücher
ISBN-13	9781665956079 / 9781665956079
Zustand	Neuware