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* 2012 Schneider Family Book Award 수상작
* Young Adult Services Division, School Library Journal Author Award
* Bank Street Child Study Children's Book Award
* Maine Student Book Award
* Vermont Dorothy Canfield Fischer Book Award
* Texas Lone Star Reading List
* Connecticut Nutmeg Children's Book Award
* Nebraska Golden Sower Award
* Minnesota Maud Heart Lovelace Award
* Washington Evergreen Young Adult Book Award
* Oklahoma Sequoyah Children's Book Award
* California Young Reader Medal
* Illinois Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Award
* New Jersey Garden State Teen Book Award
* Kansas William White Award
* Tennessee Volunteer State Book Award
* Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Award
* Indiana Young Hoosier Award
* Louisiana Young Reader's Choice Award


제시카는 친구를 좋아하고 인기도 많은 행복한 16세 소녀입니다. 그리고 그녀는 뛰어난 육상선수입니다. 달리기는 그녀의 모든 것이었고, 운동장학생으로 대학에 진학하는 것을 보장해 주는 그녀의 미래였습니다.

그런데 그녀가 신기록을 세운 경기를 마치고 집으로 돌아 오던 중에 끔찍한 교통사고가 발생했습니다. 이 사고로 다리 하나를 잃게 되자 그녀는 삶의 의미를 잃어 버렸습니다. 차라리 사고가 났을 때 죽어 버리는 것이 더 나았을지도 모른다고 생각했지요. 의사는 의족을 착용하면 걸을 수는 있을 거라고 얘기했습니다만, 제시카에게 재활과정은 너무나도 더디고 고통스럽기만 했습니다.

제시카가 실의에 빠져서 힘든 나날을 보내고 있을 때, 로자라는 아이를 알게 됩니다. 뇌성마비인 로자는 반에서 거의 존재감이 없었던 아이였지만, 제시카에게 수학을 가르쳐주었을 뿐만 아니라, 전혀 예상치 못한 미래가 그녀 앞에 열릴 수 있다는 것을 깨닫게 해줬습니다. 제시카는 로자를 만나고 부터 불가능해 보였던 일에 도전하고싶은 꿈이 생겼습니다. 의족을 착용하고 다시 걷는 것 뿐만 아니라 다시 뛰는 것...






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Paperback: 336 pages
ISBN-10: 0375866280
ISBN-13: 978-0375866289
책 크기: 20.8 cm x 13.8 cm



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Book Description
Jessica thinks her life is over when she loses a leg in a car accident. She's not comforted by the news that she'll be able to walk with the help of a prosthetic leg. Who cares about walking when you live to run?

As she struggles to cope with crutches and a first cyborg-like prosthetic, Jessica feels oddly both in the spotlight and invisible. People who don't know what to say, act like she's not there. Which she could handle better if she weren't now keenly aware that she'd done the same thing herself to a girl with CP named Rosa. A girl who is going to tutor her through all the math she's missed. A girl who sees right into the heart of her.

With the support of family, friends, a coach, and her track teammates, Jessica may actually be able to run again. But that's not enough for her now. She doesn't just want to cross finish lines herself—she wants to take Rosa with her.



School Library Journal
Jessica has run her personal best at a track meet-then there's a tragic bus accident and the high school junior loses her leg as well as her future dreams. From waking up in the hospital and coping with the trauma, to her return home, then school, she tries to grab her life back. On one level the story offers inspiration to those dealing with physical changes in their own lives and the stages of recovery, fight, survival, and victory as Jessica reaches deep to push past her wall of self-pity and loathing, and moves beyond the "finish line." On a deeper level, there is her blind discrimination toward a fellow classmate who has cerebral palsy. Rosa is hard to understand and easy to ignore. She is anchored to a wheelchair. Jessica, encumbered by her crutches and her tender "stump," is seated in the back of the class, out of the way, next to Rosa. She learns that the girl is smart, wise, and friendly. They pass notes and share lunch. Rosa writes, "I wish people would see me and not my condition." When Jessica is running again-on a specially engineered prosthesis-she challenges herself to help her friend be seen. How Jessica orchestrates putting Rosa in the forefront of a community race and pushing her wheelchair across a finish line is a study in faith and determination. Readers will cheer for Jessica's recovery and be reminded to recognize people for their strengths and not overlook them because of their disabilities.


Booklist
Sixteen-year-old Jessica is the track team’s star sprinter until tragedy strikes: the team van is struck, killing one runner and demolishing Jessica’s right leg. The book begins with Jessica refusing to acknowledge the result: a stump. But she is slowly reintroduced to life, which involves being fitted for a prosthesis, returning to school, and dealing with the usual - tough teachers, mean girls, and one really hot, sensitive, supportive boy. It’s a classic problem novel in a lot of ways; accordingly, Van Draanen inserts setbacks with narrative precision, the most affecting of which (surprisingly) is the insurance battle that Jessica’s parents face. Overall, though, this is a tremendously upbeat book, with Jessica’s family, friends, and community coming together (the track team raises funds to buy Jessica a $20,000 running leg). Even a subplot involving Jessica’s friendship with the cerebral palsy - afflicted Rosa is not as treacly as it could have been. Van Draanen’s extensive research into both running and amputees pays dividends - readers will truly feel what it’s like to walk (or run) a mile (or 10) in Jessica’s shoes.