Waiting for Sarah

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"I told you. I don't need anyone." "Everyone needs someone. Parents, for instance; everyone needs parents." "I've got no parents." "Everyone's got parents." She thought for a second. "Unless you're an orphan." "I've got work to do. So get lost." "You're not very nice." He scowled. "Just because I'm in a wheelchair doesn't mean I've got to be nice." Mike's parents and sister are dead and his legs are gone. The horrific accident that shattered his life continues to haunt him. When he grudgingly returns to school and a life that he no longer
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"I told you. I don't need anyone." "Everyone needs someone. Parents, for instance; everyone needs parents." "I've got no parents." "Everyone's got parents." She thought for a second. "Unless you're an orphan." "I've got work to do. So get lost." "You're not very nice." He scowled. "Just because I'm in a wheelchair doesn't mean I've got to be nice." Mike's parents and sister are dead and his legs are gone. The horrific accident that shattered his life continues to haunt him. When he grudgingly returns to school and a life that he no longer understands, Mike is bitter and unwilling to participate in school life. To avoid one of his classes Mike agrees to put together a 50th Anniversary history of the school. Looking forward to time alone, he is annoyed when a young girl shows up in the archives on a regular basis. Sarah seems too young to be a student in the school, but her resemblance to Mike's sister and her bubbly personality have him intrigued. She gradually draws him out of his shell and manages to interest him in the archives project, and more importantly, in life itself. As their relationship grows and changes, Mike slowly becomes convinced that Sarah is more than just another student. When he discovers the shocking secret she is carrying, he sets out to give Sarah the peace that she so desperately needs. Waiting for Sarah is a compelling, convincing story from the masterful team of James Heneghan and Bruce McBay. The two have collaborated on a number of novels in the past. James Heneghan is the author of the bestselling The Grave and Flood.
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As this Canadian novel opens, Mike Scott's father, mother and sister die in a car crash that leaves him legless and wheelchair-bound. Sullen and withdrawn, Mike goes to live with his aunt Norma, who eventually convinces him to return to high school in time for his senior year and graduation. As he works alone on a project in the school library, Sarah, a perky eighth-grader, boldly befriends him, despite his best efforts to keep her, like everyone else, at arm's length. Gradually, the boy begins to enjoy Sarah's company, just in time to learn her supernatural secret. Mike's bone-chilling discovery marks the pivot point where the book moves from angry character study to paranormal redemption tale. Both halves of the book will engage the target audience. Mike's inner torment echoes familiar questions-Why do bad things happen to good people? Why do children die while evil men live to ripe old age?-and his coming to terms with them is mature and thoughtful. Ages 12-up. (Sept.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
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When a truck driver hits his family's car head-on, 10th grader Mike Scott's life takes a terrible turn. He loses his parents, his sister, his legs and a promising future in one fell swoop. After a long and painful rehabilitation, Mike returns to school as a bitter and distant senior who shirks all attempts at assistance and friendship. His social detachment from the other students wins him the opportunity to compile the school's complete history. Mike accepts the challenge, if only to get out of attending the dreadful Mr. Dorfman's history class. Surprisingly, a strange girl named Sarah Francis—a presence he at first regrets—shows up to help Mike with the project. As Mike gets to know Sarah better, he learns to appreciate her unbending effort and looks forward to her visits. Soon, Mike begins to question Sarah's identity. In fact, no Sarah Francis even attends his school. Finally, Mike steps outside himself long enough to unlock Sarah's past. If he doesn't give up, he may solve a mystery and a murder. This moving, chilling tale of a young man's loss and regaining of self-worth proves an excellent and worthwhile example of supernatural literature. KLIATT Codes: JS*—Exceptional book, recommended for junior and senior high school students. 2003, Orca, 170p., Ages 12 to 18.
—Lynne Marie Pisano
School Library Journal
Gr 6-10-When 10th-grader Mike loses his family and both legs in an automobile accident, he is predictably withdrawn and highly resistant to those intent on helping him. Just as total academic and social detachment seem inevitable, the yearbook committee at his Vancouver high school offers Mike a job assembling a 50th anniversary feature. He accepts, but only because the assignment will free him from attending the soporific history class taught by the dreaded Mr. Dorfman. The plot takes a supernatural turn when an eighth-grade yearbook assistant, Sarah, turns up. Her persistent peppiness gradually defrosts Mike, and young love seems destined to run its course until he reports to his post one day to find Sarah bloodied and weeping in a corner. When she runs out, Mike notifies school officials who inform him that they have no record of her existence. Eventually, yearbooks reveal that she was a student there, but was slain in an unsolved murder dating back to 1982. In subsequent appearances, Sarah reveals the identity of her killer, and Mike sees that justice is done. Unfortunately, while the plot has some compelling ingredients, the third-person narrative relies so heavily on awkward chunks of bald exposition to prop up the tinny dialogue that any personal and spiritual epiphanies that the story's ambitious conclusion might hold are simply not realized.-Jeffrey Hastings, Highlander Way Middle School, Howell, MI Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780756945671
  • Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
  • Publication date: 9/28/2003
  • Pages: 192
  • Age range: 11 - 15 Years
  • Product dimensions: 4.70 (w) x 7.40 (h) x 0.70 (d)

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