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Waiting for normal / Leslie Connor.
Twelve-year-old Addie tries to cope with her mother's erratic behavior and being separated from her beloved stepfather and half-sisters when she and her mother go to live in a small trailer by the railroad tracks on the outskirts of Schenectady, New York.
Record details
- ISBN: 0060890894 (reinforced)
- ISBN: 9780060890896 (reinforced)
- ISBN: 0060890886 (trade bdg.)
- ISBN: 9780060890889 (trade bdg.)
- Physical Description: 290 pages ; 20 cm
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Katherine Tegen Books [an imprint of HarperCollins], 2008.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Indiana Department of Education 2008 Summer Reading List - Middle School. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Tin box on a tar patch -- Small stuff -- Welcome pie -- According to Webster's -- The over-underpass -- A renovation -- Tryouts and friendships -- Gates and bridges -- TV and toast dinners -- A gift of cream and honey -- A bunch of numbskulls -- A violent storm -- Evening interview -- Waiting for Mommers -- Late-night mail -- Another dish of fish-and-chips -- A different sort of Halloween -- A phone call from the mansion -- The new blue car -- All or nothing -- Dwight explaining Hannah -- All about twos and fours -- Bedtime at the inn -- Breakfasts and boxes -- A ton of turkey soup -- From good to bad -- Willing to bloom -- Twists and turns -- The counting-on part -- A frozen good-bye -- An unexpected meeting -- A few gifts before Christmas -- Waiting for normal -- Jingle all the way -- Another thing to borrow -- Loads of snow -- A visit from Grandio -- Valentine hearts -- The goosh in my gut -- Fiesta night -- Making changes -- My fault -- A hero in the fog -- After the fire -- Something familiar -- The going-away note -- Defining normal -- Full of surprises -- All to home. |
| Target Audience Note: | 570L Lexile Decoding demand: 89 (very high) Semantic demand: 100 (very high) Syntactic demand: 82 (very high) Structure demand: 88 (very high) Lexile Grades 5 up. 570 Lexile. |
| Awards Note: | A Junior Library Guild selection Schneider Family Book Award. |
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