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The Giant-slayer (Hardcover)

By: Iain Lawrence (Author)

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"This profound, magical, dryly comical novel reminds readers of the power of story, but they will already be feeling it in their bones. Masterful."

Publisher's note

When Dickie is stricken with polio and sent to the hospital where he is trapped inside a breathing machine, his best friend Laurie puts her imagination to work to encourage him and his new friends, Carolyn and Chip, by telling a fantastical story that transports them to an incredible world teeming with adventure.

"A girl's imagination transports polio-afflicted kids into a fantastic world."
The spring of 1955 tests Laurie Valentine's gifts as a storyteller. After her friend Dickie contracts polio and finds himself confined to an iron lung, Laurie visits him in the hospital. There she meets Carolyn and Chip, two other kids trapped inside the breathing machines. Laurie's first impulse is to flee, but Dickie begs her to tell them a story. And so Laurie begins her tale of Collosso, a rampaging giant, and Jimmy, a tiny boy whose destiny is to become a slayer of giants.
As Laurie embellishes her tale with gnomes, unicorns, gryphons, and other fanciful creatures, Dickie comes to believe that he is a character in her story. Little by little Carolyn, Chip, and other kids who come to listen, recognize counterparts as well. Laurie's tale is so powerful that when she's prevented from continuing it, Dickie, Carolyn, and Chip take turns as narrators. Each helps bring the story of Collosso and Jimmy to an end--changing the lives of those in the polio ward in startling ways.

"From the Hardcover edition."

Annotation

Set in 1955, 11-year-old Laurie Valentine is struggling with an intense fear of polio due to her father's work with the disease and his own paranoia. When her best friend, Dickie, falls prey to the horrible disease and is forced to be encased in an iron lung, Laurie finds herself tell him fantastical stories. Soon, other children with polio, Carolyn and Chip, listen in to Laurie's world filled with giants, magic, and gnomes. With humor and sadness, this middle grade novel is a wonderful mixture of fantasy and reality.

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