Can You Feel the Thunder?

Life is complicated enough for thirteen-year-old Mic Parsons without living on Bixby Court, the weirdest street in America. For one thing, he has to pass math so his parents will let him play baseball in the spring. And theres his locker, right between Godzilla Girl and Julia Patterson, who keeps slipping him love notes...and Freemont, who seems to have changed into someone Mic hardly recognizes as his best friend. <P> The weirdest thing on Bixby Court, though, has got to be Mics deaf-blind older sister, Stephanie, clomping around the house, touching everybody and everything. Mic hardly remembers when they used to have long fingerspelled conversations in the middle of the night, when they would play flashlight tag until Stephanies gulp-laughs gave them away. <P> Then Vern Chortle, aka Nerd Boy, moves to Bixby Court. With his 382-pair sock collection, laminated maps, and beeping watch, hes the last person Mic wants as his shadow. <P> Almost against his will, however, Mic finds himself spending more and more time at Verns house. And as Mic lets himself admit to liking Vern, he also gradually realizes that Stephanie understands h

Author: Lynn E. McElfresh

Language: English

Edition: 1st

Binding: Hardcover

Pages: 144

Publisher: Atheneum

Publication Date: 1999-06-01