Book
Giant-slayer
Record details
- ISBN: 9780440239710 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0385733763 (hc)
- ISBN: 9780385733762 (hc)
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Physical Description:
292 p. ; 22 cm.
print - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Delacorte Press, c2009.
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Kenton County.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Covington Branch | J LAWRE I (Text) | 33126015973161 | JFiction | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
When Dickie is stricken with polio and sent to the hospital where he is trapped inside a breathing machine, his best friend Laurie puts her imagination to work to encourage him and his new friends, Carolyn and Chip, by telling a fantastical story that transports them to an incredible world teeming with adventure. - Baker & Taylor
When her eight-year-old neighbor is stricken with polio in 1955, eleven-year-old Laurie discovers that there is power in her imagination as she weaves a story during her visits with him and other patients confined to iron lung machines. - Random House, Inc.
A girlâs imagination transports polio-afflicted kids into a fantastic world.
The spring of 1955 tests Laurie Valentineâs gifts as a storyteller. After her friend Dickie contracts polio and finds himself confined to an iron lung, Laurie visits him in the hospital. There she meets Carolyn and Chip, two other kids trapped inside the breathing machines. Laurieâs first impulse is to flee, but Dickie begs her to tell them a story. And so Laurie begins her tale of Collosso, a rampaging giant, and Jimmy, a tiny boy whose destiny is to become a slayer of giants.
As Laurie embellishes her tale with gnomes, unicorns, gryphons, and other fanciful creatures, Dickie comes to believe that he is a character in her story. Little by little Carolyn, Chip, and other kids who come to listen, recognize counterparts as well. Laurieâs tale is so powerful that when sheâs prevented from continuing it, Dickie, Carolyn, and Chip take turns as narrators. Each helps bring the story of Collosso and Jimmy to an endâchanging the lives of those in the polio ward in startling ways.