by Wesley King
WESLEY KING is the author of the Edgar Award—winning OCDaniel, which Booklist praised “This perceptive first-person narrative is sometimes painful, sometimes amusing, and always rewarding” in a starred review. It also received the Silver Birch Award, a kids’ choice award in King’s native Ontario, and was a Bank Street Best Book of the Year. It has been published in four countries. His first middle-grade novel, The Incredible Space Raiders from Space! (2015), was called “a well-crafted coming-of-age story” by Publishers Weekly. He lives on the ocean in Nova Scotia.
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A Paula Wiseman Book
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: King, Wesley, author.
Title: Sara and the search for normal / Wesley King.
Description: First edition. | New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2020] | “A Paula Wiseman Book.” | Audience: Ages 8-12. | Audience: Grades 4-6. | Summary: Seventh-grader Sara wants to be normal but her panic attacks and other episodes cause her to isolate herself until, in group therapy, she meets talkative and outgoing Erin, her first friend.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019028307 (print) | LCCN 2019028308 (eBook)
ISBN 9781534421134 (hardback) | ISBN 9781534421158 (eBook)
Subjects: CYAC: Friendship—Fiction. | Mentally ill—Fiction. | Panic attacks—Fiction.
Behavior—Fiction. | Family problems—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.K58922 Sar 2020 (print) | LCC PZ7.K58922 (eBook)
DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019028307