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Sam : The Boy Behind the Mask by Tom Hallman Jr. (2002, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100399149333

ISBN-139780399149337

eBay Product ID (ePID)2244148

Product Key Features

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameSam : the Boy Behind the Mask

SubjectSurgery / Oral & Maxillofacial, Pathophysiology, General, Anatomy

Publication Year2002

TypeTextbook

AuthorTom Hallman Jr.

Subject AreaBiography & Autobiography, Medical

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight15.1 Oz

Item Length8.7 in

Item Width5.7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2002-069753

Dewey Edition21

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal362.1/9752/092 B

SynopsisSam: The Boy Behind the Masktells the true, heart-wrenching story of Sam Lightner. Born with a rare disfiguring growth that covers and distorts the left side of his face, skull, and neck-Sam is determined to live a normal life. For fourteen years, doctors refuse to operate on Sam, until an elite team of surgeons at Boston Children's Hospital undertake a risky thirteen-hour operation to remove the malformation. Sam nearly dies on the operating table, but survives, and returns home to begin his freshman year of high school. However, when doctors discover excess fluid around his brain, Sam slips into a coma, and is not expected to live. As the family and doctors begin to give up, one doctor-pediatric neurosurgeon Monica Wehby-keeps believing, even as all hope seems lost. The only female in the boy's club of neurosurgery, Dr. Wehby is scorned for refusing to accept facts and for allowing her emotions-as a woman-to cloud her medical judgment. But she perseveres, staying by Sam's side, until he moves first a finger, then a foot, and finally, begins to interact with those around him. Tom Hallman's Pulitzer prize-winning series on Sam Lightner in The Oregoniantouched the city of Portland so profoundly that it generated more than ten thousand letters from readers. Now Tom Hallman takes us far deeper into the world Sam inhabits, encompassing startling and inspirational events up to the present day. A human story of hope in the face of tragedy, and the compassion to attempt the impossible, Sam: The Boy Behind the Maskshows how one boy-wanting nothing more than to be part of the regular world-is helped along his journey by medical miracles, and by the generosity of the human heart.

LC Classification NumberRD763.L54H35 2002