Welcome to the Bank Street Children's Book Committee's (CBC) Searchable Best Books List, a tool designed to help educators, families, librarians, and others access developmentally appropriate and engaging books for young readers (ages birth - 18).
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Strangers Assume My Girlfriend is My Nurse
by Shane Burcaw
Ages: 14+
Published: 2019
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press/Holtzbrinck/Macmillan
ISBN: 978-1-62672-770-0
Keywords: Humor, SMA (Spinal muscular atrophy), Diversity, MSA (Multiple System Atrophy, Memoir, Muscular dystrophy
With humor and insight, the author describes how others react to his outward appearances as he navigates his muscle-wasting disease, but also depicts acts of love, friendship, and activism. Photographs.