Kate McGovern
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
While Maple has an impressive vocabulary and loves dictating stories into her recorder, she hides the fact that she cannot read, but as she repeats the fifth grade Maple begins to recognize her own strengths and learns to love herself--and her brain--just the way it is.
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Description
Seventeen-year-old Rose Levenson has a decision to make: Does she want to know how she's going to die? Because when Rose turns eighteen, she can take the test that tells her if she carries the genetic mutation for Huntington's disease, the degenerative condition that is slowly killing her mother.
With a fifty-fifty shot at inheriting her family's genetic curse, Rose is skeptical about pursuing anything that presumes she'll live to be a healthy adult-including...