RoboDad
(Dancing On Dark
Water)
Scholastic Point
Paperback published
as
Dancing on Dark
Water
Society of
Midland Authors: Best
Children's Fiction Book of 1990
A New York
Public Library Best
Book for the Teenage
Selected for
Ward & Thompson's
The Best of 1990: Picture Books, Juvenile, and YA Fiction
Selected for Your
Reading:
A Booklist for Junior High and Middle School Students, published by
the National Council of
Teachers of English.
Listed in What
Do Young Adults
Read Next
from Gale Research
"Extraordinarily,
almost painfully,
perceptive" --Booklist
"A sensitive and
moving story"--ALAN
Review
"Gritty...
probing... inspiring"--Publisher's
Weekly
"Stirring"--VOYA
"Powerful and
disturbing, the story
is told with compassion and honesty"--Center for
Children's Books
FROM
THE BOOK
JACKET:
"The
doctors at
the hospital
didn't waste any time. Late that night, they sawed open Dad's skull to
save his life. Alex, Sid, and I didn't
get
to see him
until a couple of days later. He looked
pretty much
the same
except for the bandages, but there was something missing from his eyes.
He didn't say anything, just stared at
us
like he didn't
recognize us and didn't much care
either..."
Shar's
family
used to be pretty
cool, but everything's different since her dad got sick. He doesn't act
like a dad anymore, he's more like a walking, talking robot. Shar is
doing
everything she can to help
out. But it's
really hard when the person who used to
be your
best buddy doesn't
even notice you exist. Yet Shar's decided not to give up. She's going
to
get her dad back--no matter what.
Softcover no longer available.
Hardcover $14.95
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classroom
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