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[tim]

Here via redbird! I've been wondering about the title of a young adult novel I read sometime in the late '80s. It was about a girl who had scoliosis and had been in the hospital for a long time, and didn't want to leave, but was told "we need the hospital for kids who are really sick." A character in the book said "horse plops" as a swear. The author was a woman, but none of this was apparently enough to find the book on Google. Any ideas?

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[fred_mouse]

I feel like I read that one as well, but I don't remember anything helpful about it. My strong memory is about her being in some kind of cast. Sorry :{

[tim]

Yep, that sounds like the same book. At least someone else remembers it!

[fred_mouse]

I suspect I mostly remember it because a few years later one of the music kids in the year below me was diagnosed with scoliosis, and I remember trying to work out (without being nosy) how much of the story I remembered matched to real life.

[daisers]

Was this one where there were two girls with scoliosis sharing a hospital room, and one was a jock and one a romantic, and they became bffs just the same?

[tim]

Hmm, possibly? I don't remember the part about one being a jock, but there were definitely two girls who were friends, one of whom was the protagonist. There was more than one YA scoliosis novel for sure, but it might or might not be the same one :)

[(Anonymous)]

The one I"m thinking of is Just Like Always by Elizabeth Sachs - see if that's the same one!

[(Anonymous)]

(and this is Daisers from above)

[tim]

I've definitely read Just Like Always, but it might be a different book. Looks promising, though, thanks!

[kayim]

Very late comment here, but I've only just discovered this community :)

Could the book have been Deenie by Judy Blume?

[tim]

Nope, I've read Deenie and remember it well enough to know it's definitely not that one :)