Probably Still Nick Swansen

by Virginia Euwer Wolff

Book Overview

Nick Swansen pretty much knows what it means to be Special Ed.: You can't drive, even if you're sixteen and your parents have two cars; the regular kids in school don't talk to you much; and even if... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590431463
• ISBN13: 9780590431460
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Length: 175 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.1" x 6.7"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

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this was a great book about a special ed. child who wants to just be normal.

Great Book

I liked this book a lot. More Kids should read it.

Very thoughtful

I was reading this for the second time because of my homework. I was asked to find a story that's about a teenager having trouble with emotions and learned to deal with it effectively. I think this is a really good book for YA.

I would make it assigned reading!

But I'm not a teacher, not yet, only a teaching assistant and in graduate school to get a teaching credential in special ed. A few things have changed in the field since Wolff published this in 1988, but the fundamental truth is there. However, if I were a teacher I would assign this book to struggling readers in a heartbeat. In fact, it'd probably even be more useful for "regular" kids. The cover of my copy reads: "Nick has a problem./ No... problems." How he deals with his problems should be instructive to everybody. Much more instructive than To Kill a Mockingbird, in my opinion.

Nick brings understanding

I thought this was a really good book. I felt like I actually knew what it was like to be learning disabled. This book has everything from death of a sibling to being stood up for the prom.