2016
First Published
3.85
Average Rating
206
Number of Pages
2017 Red Maple Fiction Award finalist Meet Erika and One is a fifteen-year-old girl who loves to dance and sing and make people laugh. She tells people that she was born with an extra gene, but her sister has to buy hers at the mall (ha, ha!!). Being in three dance numbers in the school production of Grease is a big job, but with the help of her Best Buddy, Gianni, Erika knows she can be a star. The other is a Grade 11 boy with a secret. Like his Best Buddy, Erika, who was born with Down Syndrome, Gianni loves to sing and dance. He also knows that he was born different from the other boys in his school - but is he that different from Blake, the cool, attractive male lead in the school play? Or is he just imagining that the sparks between them are mutual? And will the rough gang of guys at school also pick up on who he really is? Told in the alternating voices of Erika and Gianni, Born With is the story of two teens who help each other to find their own versions of success and acceptance. Each One-to-One novel tells the story of a different pair of teens participating in the Best Buddies program at Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School. Follow the lives of this group of friends who come together with different expectations and problems, seeing the world from their own unique perspectives and facing it head on together.
Avg Rating
3.85
Number of Ratings
284
5 STARS
30%
4 STARS
35%
3 STARS
28%
2 STARS
6%
1 STARS
2%
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Author
Lorna Schultz Nicholson
Author · 20 books
Lorna Schultz Nicholson is a full-time writer who has published over 30 books, including children's picture books, middle grade, YA fiction and sports non-fiction. Fragile Bones is her latest in her One-2-One series. It is about a teen with high functioning autism. Lorna divides her time between Edmonton and Penticton, where she and her husband share their homes with their crazy Mexican dog, Poncho,and a whiny bichon-shih tzu Molly. http://www.facebook.com/lorna.s.nicho...
