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Product Identifiers

PublisherSimon & Schuster Children's Publishing

ISBN-101534419365

ISBN-139781534419360

eBay Product ID (ePID)5050412174

Product Key Features

Book TitleDegenerates

Number of Pages304 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicHistorical / United States / 20th Century, Social Themes / General (See Also Headings under Family), Girls & Women

Publication Year2021

IllustratorYes

GenreYoung Adult Fiction

AuthorJ. Albert Mann

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight8.3 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceYoung Adult Audience

LCCN2019-035673

ReviewsThe author portrays the movement's prejudice, racism, and violence with brutal realism; an author's note explains that the doctors' dehumanizing dialogue comes verbatim from real medical notes. Crucially, she reminds readers that such prejudice still exists. . . . Respectful, unflinching, and eye-opening.

Dewey Edition23

TitleLeadingThe

Grade FromNinth Grade

Dewey Decimal813.6

SynopsisThis fiery historical novel follows four young women in the early 20th century whose lives intersect when they are locked up by a world that took the poor, the disabled, the marginalized-and institutionalized them for life., "Respectful, unflinching, and eye-opening." -- Kirkus Reviews "Historical fiction that not only depicts a cruel, horrifying reality but also the strength and courage of the people who had to endure it." -- Booklist In the tradition of Girl, Interrupted , this fiery historical novel follows four young women in the early 20th century whose lives intersect when they are locked up by a world that took the poor, the disabled, the marginalized-and institutionalized them for life. The Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded is not a happy place. The young women who are already there certainly don't think so. Not Maxine, who is doing everything she can to protect her younger sister Rose in an institution where vicious attendants and bullying older girls treat them as the morons, imbeciles, and idiots the doctors have deemed them to be. Not Alice, either, who was left there when her brother couldn't bring himself to support a sister with a club foot. And not London, who has just been dragged there from the best foster situation she's ever had, thanks to one unexpected, life-altering moment. Each girl is determined to change her fate, no matter what it takes.

LC Classification NumberPZ7.M31433Deg 2020