| Authors: |
Bray, Libba.
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| Material type: |
Book |
| Subject: |
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease -- Fiction.
Mad cow disease -- Fiction.
Dwarfs -- Fiction.
People with disabilities -- Fiction.
Automobile travel -- Fiction.
Sick persons -- Fiction.
Teenage boys -- Fiction.
Death -- Fiction.
Sixteen-year-old boys -- Fiction.
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| Language: |
English |
| Publisher: |
New York : Delacorte Press, c2009. |
| Description: |
480 p. ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780385904117 (lib. bdg.) 0385904118 (lib. bdg.) 9780385733977 (trade) 0385733976 (trade) |
| Notes: |
Michael L. Printz Award, 2010. |
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| Tags |
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| Rating: |
4 out of 5: They liked it |
| Community reviews |
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Couldn't finish by MechAngel |
| I couldn't finish this one. It wasn't bad, I just wasn't engaged after the first 100 pages or so. |
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| Summary: |
Cameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen year-old who, after being diagnosed with Creutzfeldt- Jakob's (aka mad cow) disease, sets off on a road trip with a death-obsessed video gaming dwarf he meets in the hospital in an attempt to find a cure. |