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Invincible Summer

Jean Ferris, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-43608-7

This bittersweet, lyrical novel describes a girl's first romance--and her struggle with leukemia. Ages 12-up. (Apr.)
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Reviewed on: 04/04/1994

Release date: 04/01/1994

Genre: Children's

Paperback - 176 pages - 9780374436087

Hardcover - 167 pages - 9780374336424

Mass Market Paperbound - 176 pages - 9780380706198

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