Push Girl
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Publication Year
2014
ISBN
9781250045911
Pages
240 pages
Genre
realism
Format
novel
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
Kara, a high school junior, is popular with a great group of friends, an amazing boyfriend, and expectations of being Homecoming Queen until she leaves a party angry and wakes up in a hospital bed, paralized from the waist down, but as she is forced to adjust to her new physical reality, she also learns that her friends are not who they seemed to be.
Grade Level
6-8; 9-12
Lexile Measure
870L
Diversity Topics
Disability and Health; Physical disability; paralysis; paraplegia; wheelchair user
Main Character
female teenager
Race/Ethnicities
White
Family Formation
mother and father
Keywords
high shool; coming of age; homecoming; relationships; friendship; car accident; dancing
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Hill, Chelsie and Love, Jessica, "Push Girl" (2014). Diverse Families. 1635.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/1635