{My thoughts} – A nice little story to help teens better understand what it’s like to deal with cancer. This girl has been fighting for her life while going through treatments and she tells about some of the process. She tells how her she feels about how her parents and family and friends treat her. She talks about her close relationship with the girl she’d shared hospital rooms with on a regular basis. She talks about how she met a boy and fell and love. She talks about how gut wrenching it is to go to a doctors appointment waiting to see if its good or bad news.

I think this book is brilliant. I like how it is well put together. I like how the images help to add to the context and understanding of the text on each page. I really think that any middle grade/teenage child could benefit from reading this book. I think it has the potential to help them see what takes place in a way that their brain will have an easier time understanding.

Being sick with any illness as a child is hard for a child to wrap their head around. It’s not an easy situation, it’s not an easy fix. There is a process and this book helps to layout the process this teen went through in her road to trying to become cured.

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The title tells you pretty much all you need to know about this story of a teenager with leukemia (though the journey to that ending is not without much sadness). This was filed with the graphic novels at my library, but it is more a picture book for the middle school or YA crowd. Well intentioned and well done, with some quirky but fitting art. ( )

Please see my review under C. Wong on Amazon.com. ( )