Written by: Jake Wizner New York: Random House Children’s Books, 2007; 287 pages. Shakespeare Shapiro is being raised the polar opposite of how his parents were raised. They were given perfectly boring, average names – so they gave Shakespeare the most exotic name to endure. Shakespeare’s parents were given more rules than they could remember to [...]
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Spanking Shakespeare
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Stuck in Neutral
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Written by: Terry Trueman; Narrated by: Johnny Heller Frederick: Recorded Books, 2001; 2 hours and 30 minutes. New York: HarperTeen, 2001; 128 pages. Shawn McDaniel is a fourteen year old boy who suffers from cerebral palsy. He tells the reader a firsthand account of what his life is like, trapped in a body that [...]
