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Braced

Rachel Brooks is excited for the new school year. She's finally earned a place as a forward on her soccer team. Her best friends make everything fun. And she really likes Tate, and she's pretty sure he likes her back. After one last appointment with her scoliosis doctor, this will be her best year yet.

Then the doctor delivers some terrible news: The sideways curve in Rachel's spine has gotten worse, and she needs to wear a back brace 23 hours a day. The brace wraps her in hard plastic from shoulder blades to hips. It changes how her clothes fit, how she kicks a ball, and how everyone sees her — even her friends and Tate. But as Rachel confronts all the challenges the brace presents, the biggest change of all may lie in how she sees herself.

By the acclaimed author of Focused and Taking Up Space who wore a brace of her own growing up, Braced is the inspiring, heartfelt story of a girl learning to manage the many curves life throws her way.

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"[Rachel's] mother, whose own scoliosis required a spinal fusion, is rigid and unsympathetic as the brace affects Rachel's soccer technique and jeopardizes her place on the team. Her classmates gossip, and though her friends and crush are generally supportive, the author nails their realistic discomfort at being bullied by association. Ultimately, her friends help her to adjust, and Rachel learns to assert herself.... The author doesn't diminish Rachel's difficulties, but at heart her story is uplifting; a brace can be a 'built-in drum' to dance to." — Kirkus Reviews

Product Details

Recommended Age 10 - 13
Author Alyson Gerber
ISBN 9780545907613
Publication Date Jul 31, 2018
Publisher Scholastic Inc.
Language English