Joyride

by Betty Cavanna

Book Overview

Crippled by polio, Susan struggles during her four years of high school to come to grips with her handicap and her prospects for the future. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688201253
• ISBN13: 9780688201258
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Dark departure for Betty Cavanna

Inexplicably, I acquired a bunch of Betty Cavanna books many of which I considered adequate tween fare but I found Joyride to be disturbing and informative. I'm not sure the books were ghost written by different people but Joy Ride is a dark and serious book about a plain jane with the added burden of having had polio. This book is not the typical tween discovers beauty tips and boys. The parents are dysfunctional and the assessment of the main character who will never be one of the beautiful people in magazines is painfully realistic. The time period is also different from her other books in that it is set in the beginning of the Roaring Twenties and not the Happy Daze 1950s. p.s. I googled and found that Betty Cavanna had had polio as a child.