by Wendy Orr · Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9780440227731
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«Peeling the Onion» is Wendy Orr's young adult novel, published by Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers in paperback, in English.
After a car accident in which she breaks her neck, Anna, a seventeen-year-old karate champion, loses the references that defined her life: appearance, friendships, and sport. During the long recovery, the layers of her former identity peel away one by one, and Anna must face who she really is and who she wants to be.
Novel originally published in 1999; this paperback edition has 176 pages. The cover reads «How many layers hide the person you really are?».
Aimed at readers aged 12 and up: it follows a 17-year-old protagonist and addresses identity and recovery after an accident.
Wendy Orr is a Canadian-born Australian writer born in Edmonton, Alberta. She is probably best known as the author of Nim's Island, which was made into a film in 2008 starring Jodie Foster, Abigail Breslin and Gerard Butler. In 1995, she received the CBCA Book of the Year, Younger Readers award.
