Are You Alone on Purpose? - Hardcover
After an accident, Harry Roth and Alison Shandling, two very different young people with a long history of mutual dislike, discover that they share similar feelings of alienation toward their parents and their peers.
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"This is a wonderful first novel.... Harry and Alison's tentative beginnings and tender friendship will strike a familiar chord with young people who cope with feelings and alienation from family and peers on a regular basis."-- VOYA
"A moving portrayal of two remarkable teenagers."--School Library Journal
"Werlin invest[s] her characters with rich, strong personalities . . . . Her skill in sketching out family dynamics and probing the difficult issues of adolescence mark her as a writer worth watching."--Publishers Weekly
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"A moving portrayal of two remarkable teenagers."--School Library Journal
"Werlin invest[s] her characters with rich, strong personalities . . . . Her skill in sketching out family dynamics and probing the difficult issues of adolescence mark her as a writer worth watching."--Publishers Weekly
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. But when Harry is injured in a diving accident, Alison senses that he's hiding something that he wants to share with someone. And she begins to think that she's just the someone he can share it with....
When the rabbi's son, Harry Roth, begins taunting Alison about her brother, she does her best to stand up for herself. But when Harry is injured in a diving accident, Alison senses that he's hiding something that he wants to share with someone. And she begins to think that she's just the someone he can share it with....
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- PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 039567350X
- ISBN 13 9780395673508
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages204
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