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Are You Alone on Purpose?
Are You Alone on Purpose
Author: Nancy Werlin
Though fourteen-year-old Alison Shandling is a brain, her twin brother, Adam, is autistic. All of her life, Alison's parents have focused on Adam and what he needs, while Alison has always felt she had to be perfect. — When the rabbi's son, Harry Roth, begins taunting Alison about her brother, she does her best to stand up for herself. Bu...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780449704455
ISBN-10: 0449704459
Publication Date: 11/29/1995
Pages: 192
Reading Level: Young Adult
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Publisher: Fawcett
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Harry Roth is the son of a rabbi and a bully. Alison Shandling is the twin of an autistic boy Adam. Harry abuses anyone who might come close enough to see that he is grieving his mother. When he becomes a paraplegic in a diving accident, Alison takes him on as a project, while his father the rabbi teaches Adam Hebrew.

This slight book for younger teens is surprisingly effecting. This is Werlin's first novel, my second of hers.


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