An American Summer

Frank Deford

Original title: An American summer

first published 2002 Sourcebooks Landmark, 2003 paperback 320 pages

In 1954, fourteen-year-old Christy Bannister becomes friends with twenty-three-year-old Kathryn Slade, a polio victim who lives in an iron lung.

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An American Summer paperback · 2003 · Sourcebooks Landmark · 320 pages · 9781402200595
An American summer edition · 2003 · Beeler Large Print · 280 pages
An American summer edition · 2002 · Sourcebooks · 229 pages

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