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Item Nr: B 124735 Title: Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko
Grade Lvl: JS Author: Stambach, Scott
Length: 326 Prod/Pub: St. Martin's Press
Copyright: 2016 Series:
Book Type: FC Biographee:
Copies: 2 Loan Period: 42 days
 
  Seventeen-year-old Ivan Isaenko is a life-long resident of the Mazyr Hospital for Gravely Ill Children in Belarus. Born severely deformed, yet mentally keen with a frighteningly sharp wit, strong intellect, and a voracious appetite for books, Ivan is forced to interact with the world through the vivid prism of his mind. For the most part, every day is exactly the same for Ivan. That is until the seventeen-year-old Polina arrives at the hospital. At first, Ivan resents Polina. She steals his books. She challenges his routine. The nurses like her. But eventually, he is drawn to her and the two forge a romance that is tenuous and beautiful and everything they never dared dream of. And now Ivan wants something, whereas before he survived by being utterly detached from things and people: Ivan wants Polina to live. Iowa High School Battle of the Books 2018-2019. Realistic fiction. Contemporary fiction. IL 9-12.

  Subjects:
  1389 - BELARUS
  225 - BOYS
  579 - DISABILITIES
  858 - DISABILITIES--PHYSICAL/PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED
  477 - EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN
  1402 - HUMOROUS STORIES
  1406 - INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS
  700 - REALISTIC FICTION
  1260 - SICK/ILL
  1999 - TEENS (SOCIAL THEMES)