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  • Published: 15 March 2014
  • ISBN: 9781609805180
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $45.00

Lizzie!




Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Maxine Kumin brings a disabled heroine named Lizzie to life in this exciting adventure of black markets, screeching monkeys, Florida in the summertime, and the bonds of true friendship.

Lizzie, age eleven, does not let her wheelchair get in the way of her curiosity. After she is partially paralyzed in a diving accident, Lizzie and her single mom are starting life over in a small town in Florida, where Lizzie’s thirst for knowledge and adventure makes her some unlikely friends and gets her into some sticky situations. Resilient and precocious, Lizzie has a passion for learning new words (especially those with Latin roots) and a propensity for finding trouble, which is how she ends up stumbling upon criminal activities involving seedy characters, beautiful golden monkeys, and murder.

  • Published: 15 March 2014
  • ISBN: 9781609805180
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $45.00

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Praise for Lizzie!

"Kumin's is a poetry of wide sympathy and tact . . . and a tart and compassionate irony."--The New Yorker

"Kumin's tonal clarity is transformative."--New York Times Book Review

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