Interest Level
Grades 9 - 12
Reading Level
Grade level Equivalent: 6.5
Lexile Measure®: Not Available
DRA: Not Available
Guided Reading: NR
Genre
- Drama
- Poetry and Rhymes
- Fantasy
Theme/Subject
- Challenges and Overcoming Obstacles
- Architecture
- Family Life
- Arts and Creativity
- Character and Values
- Life Experiences
- Disabilities
- Popular Culture
- European
- Actors, Artists, Performers
- Drama, Theater, Musicals
- Visual Arts
- Pride and Self-Esteem
- Travel and Vacations
- Friends and Friendship
- Romantic Relationships
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About This Book
Sixteen-year-old Courtney was paralyzed in the accident. Never again will she walk, dance, run, or even leave the convalescent home where she lies in a bed, surrounded by the elderly and dying.
Or will she? When the elderly Elva asks her new roommate to read to her from the 1910 edition of Baedeker's Italy, Courtney reluctantly agrees. Each afternoon, for a short time, the two escape back in time from the darkness of winter in North Dakota. Where there seemed none, together they will find adventure, poetry, beauty, love, and most of all, hope.
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