# Stuck in Neutral

**Author:** Terry Trueman
**Grade range:** Grades 7–10
**Age range:** 12–15
**First published:** 2014
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9781632452993`
**ISBN-10:** `1632452995`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/stuck-in-neutral
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Shawn McDaniel's life is not what it may seem to anyone looking at him. He is glued to his wheelchair, unable to voluntarily move a muscle--he can't even move his eyes. For all Shawn's father knows, his son may be suffering. Shawn may want a release. And a

## Themes

- disability
- perspective
- family

## Where this book is assigned

### Kentucky Bluegrass Award

- **recommended** · 7th grade · Kentucky — [source: Kentucky Association of School Librarians — Kentucky Bluegrass Award Winner's Circle (grades 3-5 + 6-8; annual since 1983)](https://www.kasl.us/kba/kba-winners-circle)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Kentucky — [source: Kentucky Association of School Librarians — Kentucky Bluegrass Award Winner's Circle (grades 3-5 + 6-8; annual since 1983)](https://www.kasl.us/kba/kba-winners-circle)

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