Introducing... Sasha Abramowitz

By Sue Halpern

Book Overview

"I'm wild about Sasha . . . You'll like her, too." Gregory Maguire Meet Sasha Abramowitz: smart, funny, resourceful. Aspiring writer and pastry chef. Good listener (usually), good talker (when she feels like it), good friend (most of the time). Good sister? Well, that's more complicated. You see, her brother has Tourette's syndrome, which is really his problem, but in a way it's Sasha's, too (he can be pretty embarrassing at times). Let's just say she's working on it. Anyway, he's away at a special school (until a fire sends the students home, unexpectedly). But with her baseball-loving professor dad, a mom who teaches neuroscience, a babysitter who's the star shortstop for the Krieger Cats and doubles as a magician and card trickster, an ex-babysitter who becomes her substitute teacher, and an onagain-off-again best friend, Sasha is not alone. As she struggles with changing friendships and feelings about her older brother, learns her lines for her part inCheaper by the Dozen, gets to know James, the quiet boy who plays opposite her, and helps the doctors solve a medical mystery, she comes to see herselfand her life in a different light. In this original novel, Sasha tells her story, complete with footnotes, card tricks, appendixes, and all her best vocabulary words, with brio.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374384320
• ISBN13: 9780374384326
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 279 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 10 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 5 and higher

Customer Reviews

WONDERFUL BOOK--A MUST READ!!!

This is an amazing story, looking in depth at Sasha, as she struggles with feelings about her brother, who suffers from Torrets syndrome and has to live at a special school. This is a book about her life, and amazingly, it is NOT BORING. It takes the reader away in to her world, where her father, a poet and a teacher and keriger Collage sits and writes in a Barber shop because it has better "atmosphere". Her world where her best friend wants to be a dective, and puts up signs all over Kregier Collage that say Drew Hardy dective agency, and have Sasha's number on them. Sasha's world where her dig Tripod (he only has three legs) steals lasanya from the caffitera. Her world where sometimes things go wrong. Ann M. Martin author of A corner of the univers and GREGORY MAGUIRE, AUTHER OF WICKED both had GREAT things to say about this new book. When you start to read it, you get sucked into her world, and you can't get out of it until the end. But even then, the questions posed in this book will ALWAYS stick in your mind. Take a chance, buy this wonderful new book, and you will love it.