Turtle Boy

Type

Book

Authors

Wolkenstein, M Evan

ISBN 10

1432888641

ISBN 13

9781432888640

Tags

friendship, realistic fiction, living with visible disabilities, Disabilities, religiously diverse, religious, Bar Mitzvah, bullying, bullies, Jewish, Jews, loss, misfit, Self-Esteem, volunteer worker, hospital, Sydney Taylor Book Award

Abstract

A seventh grader struggles through a new school year marked by bullying, his teacher's insistence that he return captured turtles to the wild and a bar mitzvah community service project that requires him to spend time visiting a terminally ill boy in the hospital.

Description

Grade Level: 5-12

William Allen White Children's Book Award Nominee, 2022-2023

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