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The First Thing About You

ISBN-10: 1536239798
ISBN-13: 9781536239799
Author: Hayden, Chaz
Interest Level: 9-12
Publisher: Candlewick Press

Publication Date: September 2024

Copyright: 2022

Page Count: 368

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Interest Level

Grades 9-12

Reading Level

Lexile: HL700L
Accelerated Reader Level: 4.7
Accelerated Reader Points: 12.0

Booksource Subjects

BISAC Subjects

YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Dating & Sex *

YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Friendship *

Description
A high school student with spinal muscular atrophy is determined to reinvent himself in a hilarious and poignant debut from an exciting new voice. When fifteen-year-old Harris moves with his family from California (home of beautiful-but-inaccessible beaches) to New Jersey (home of some much-hyped pizza and bagels), he's determined to be known as more than just the kid in the powered wheelchair. Armed with his favorite getting-to-know-you question (“What's your favorite color?"), he'll weed out the incompatible people-the greens and the purples, people who are too close to his own blue to make for good friends-and surround himself with outgoing yellows, adventurous oranges, and even thrilling reds. But first things first: he needs to find a new nurse, stat, so that his mom doesn't have to keep accompanying him to school. Enter Miranda, a young nursing student who graduated from Harris's new high school. Beautiful, confident, and the perfect blend of orange and red, Miranda sees Harris for who he really is-funny, smart, and totall
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