To Stand on My Own: The Polio Epidemic Diary of Noreen Robertson
by Haworth-Attard, Barbara
Series:Dear Canada
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AR Book Level
5.3
AR Points
6
Word Count
37,939
Interest Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Genre
Fiction
AR Quiz #
140147 EN
About this book
Noreen, like hundreds of other young Canadians, contracts polio and is unable to move her legs. After a few weeks, she gains partial recovery, but her family makes the painful decision to send her to a hospital far away for further treatment.