Petey

About this book

In 1922 Petey, who has cerebral palsy, is misdiagnosed as an idiot and institutionalized; sixty years later, still in the institution, he befriends a boy and shares with him the joy of life.

Subjects

• cerebral palsy
• cerebral palsy, fiction
• children's fiction
• fiction
• juvenile fiction
• old age
• old age, fiction
• people with disabilities
• people with disabilities, fiction
• reading level-grade 4
• reading level-grade 5
• reading level-grade 6
• reading level-grade 7
• reading level-grade 8