Sara and the Search for Normal

Home > Other > Sara and the Search for Normal > Page 17
Sara and the Search for Normal Page 17

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.

  Visit us at simonandschuster.com/kids

  www.SimonandSchuster.com/Authors/Wesley-King

  A Paula Wiseman Book

  Simon & Schuster, New York

  Also by Wesley King

  The Incredible Space Raiders from Space!

  OCDaniel

  A World Below

  SIMON & SCHUSTER BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS

  An imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division

  1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10020

  www.SimonandSchuster.com

  This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  Text copyright © 2020 by Wesley King

  Jacket illustration copyright © 2020 by Elizabeth Casal

  All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.

  SIMON & SCHUSTER BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS

  is a trademark of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

  For information about special discounts for bulk purchases, please contact Simon & Schuster Special Sales at 1-866-506-1949 or [email protected].

  The Simon & Schuster Speakers Bureau can bring authors to your live event.

  For more information or to book an event, contact the Simon & Schuster Speakers Bureau at 1-866-248-3049 or visit our website at www.simonspeakers.com.

  Book design by Tom Daly

  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

 

 

 


‹ Prev