Jamie Sumner
Autor(a) de Roll with It
About the Author
Jamie Sumner has written for the New York Times and The Washington Post among many other publications. She is the author of the nonfiction book on motherhood Unbound and the middle-grade novel Roll with It. She is also mom to a son with cerebral palsy and she writes and speaks about disability in mostrar mais literature. She loves stories that celebrate the grit and beauty in all kids. She and her family live in Nashville, Tennessee. Visit her at www.jamie-sumner.com. mostrar menos
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Rolling On (Roll with It) 1 exemplar(es)
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Sexo
- female
- Agente
- Keely Boeving
Membros
Resenhas
Listas
Youth: Diversity (1)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 10
- Membros
- 590
- Popularidade
- #42,530
- Avaliação
- 4.1
- Resenhas
- 20
- ISBNs
- 51
Twelve-year-old Tully is determined to set a record by becoming the youngest and fastest swimmer to cross Lake Tahoe - twelve miles in six hours. Her friend Arch is her support team, in a kayak alongside her. Hour by hour, Tully swims, but more than physical endurance, it's her memories that threaten to drag her under. She planned this marathon with her mom, who left four months ago, after she stopped taking medication for depression, and completing it herself is Tully's bid to get her mom to come back. A few hours in, Tully's dad and Arch's parents realize they aren't where they're supposed to be, and after that, a storm rolls in - with rain, thunder, and lightning - but Tully insists on continuing no matter what.
Quotes
The problem with letting someone else tell your story
is that they always get it wrong. (first sentence)
I have dragged him into another fight
he did not want to be in,
and now I don't know how to say sorry
without saying I was wrong. (92)
...I am HERE and I am ALIVE
and I'm worth
showing up for. (108)
...depression
can be an invisible disease
and how you can't always tell
what's going on with a person
when you look at the outside. (134)
Why does it always have to be her way
or not at all?
Why didn't she love me enough
to wait? (155)
I like the calm down here where nobody needs anything from me and I
can just be me. But who am I without something to push for? (187)
Maybe what they say about avalanches
is true about life too.
You have to cry to find out
which way is
up. (212-213)
Agent: Keely Boeving
Editor: Reka Simonsen… (mais)