Description: An eighteen-year-old mentally retarded girl has problems adjusting to her job as an aide in a nursing home but soon finds that it brings her friendship and a feeling of self-worth for the first time in her life.
Synopsis An eighteen-year-old mentally retarded girl has problems adjusting to her job as an aide in a nursing home but soon finds that it brings her friendship and a feeling of self-worth for the first time in her life.
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Publication Date:
1982-09-01
Publisher's Note Alice emerges, at age eighteen, from an institution for the retarded to assume a job in a nursing home and to become part of a world she has never experienced.