Okay for Now A National Book Award Winner

Name: Okay for Now A National Book Award Winner
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ISBN: 9780544022805

ISBN-10: 0544022807

ISBN-13: 9780544022805

Edition: 2011

Authors: Gary D. Schmidt

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As a fourteen-year-old who just moved to a new town, with no friends and a louse for an older brother, Doug Swieteck has all the stats stacked against him. So begins a coming-of-age masterwork full of equal parts comedy and tragedy from Newbery Honor winner Gary D. Schmidt. As Doug struggles to be more than the “skinny thug” that his teachers and the police think him to be, he finds an unlikely ally in Lil Spicer—a fiery young lady who “smelled like daisies would smell if they were growing in a big field under a clearing sky after a rain.” In Lil, Doug finds the strength to endure an abusive father, the suspicions of a whole town, and the return of his oldest brother, forever scarred, from…

Book details

List price: $9.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 2/5/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.12" wide x 7.62" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Gary D. Schmidt is the bestselling author of Okay For Now , the Newbery Honor and Printz Honor book Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy , and the Newbery Honor book The Wednesday Wars. He is a professor of English at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.