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Bohlmeijer, Arno SOMETHING VERY SORRY New York : Houghton Mifflin, 1996 IL 5-8 RL 4.2 ISBN 0698116100 This is a heartwrenching story of a family recovering from an automobile accident in the hospital. It is told by a nine year old girl who is in traction because of her arm. She has a younger sister who received brain damage, a father with broken legs and ribs and breathing problems and a mother who eventually dies in a coma. The story appears to be a re-telling of actual experiences by the father. (Frederick Muller fmuller@planet.net, Halsted Middle School Library, Newton, New Jersey) SUBJECTS:     Traffic accidents -- Fiction                         Death -- Fiction                         Parent and child -- Fiction                         Hospitals -- Fiction ©  Permission is granted for the noncommercial duplication and use of this resource, provided it is substantially unchanged from its present form and appropriate credit is given.