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Author Bray, Libba.
Title Going bovine / Libba Bray.
Publication Info. New York : Delacorte Press, [2009]
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Location Call No. Status
 Little Whit Young Adult  YA-HS B    IN LIBRARY
Edition First edition
Description x, 480 pages ; 22 cm
Note Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature, 2010.
Audience 14 & up.
Summary In an attempt to find a cure after being diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob's (aka mad cow) disease, Cameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen-year-old boy, sets off on a road trip with a death-obsessed video gaming dwarf he meets in the hospital.
Local Note NYSL copy inscribed by author on title page. "... thanks for a terrific Sunday afternoon..." with Os in title decorated to resemble cows.
Awards Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature, 2010.
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2010.
Genre or Form Authors' autographs (Provenance) ZNS
Presentation inscriptions (Provenance) ZNS
Subject Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease -- Juvenile fiction.
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy -- Juvenile fiction.
Dwarfs (Persons) -- Juvenile fiction.
People with disabilities -- Juvenile fiction.
Automobile travel -- Juvenile fiction.
Genre or Form Young adult fiction.
Added Author Bray, Libba, inscriber. ZNS
ISBN 9780385904117 (lib. bdg.)
0385904118 (lib. bdg.)
9780385733977 (trade)
0385733976 (trade)
0385733984 (pbk.)
9780385733984 (pbk.)
9781448731138 (Paw prints)
1448731135 (Paw prints)


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