This book was kind of interesting. It's about a teenage girls struggle with cancer. These kinds of books always make people think about how lucky they are not to be in the position the characters in the book are in. The narrator is a girl who was just normal. Until she gets cancer and this book describes what goes on in extreme detail. I learned stuff about the process of recovery from cancer that I didn't even know.Review/Description
Ultra-normal teenager Izzy learns that she has stage IV Hodgkins lymphoma. She undergoes standard treatments, withstands her newfound pity-popularity at school, leans on her best friend, and grows in her understanding of her mother. She narrates with a relatively light, joke-cracking tone as her ballpoint pen doodles cartoon jibes at the things making her uncomfortable. Throughout, readers see how the teens condition affects her loving family and supportive best friend. Reassured by the preface, they will have no fear of Izzys recovery. Rather, the story focuses in great detail on her treatments and how she gets through them, holding out for a future in which she will have long, braided hair and a boyfriend who can deal with serious stuff like cancer.
Ultra-normal teenager Izzy learns that she has stage IV Hodgkins lymphoma. She undergoes standard treatments, withstands her newfound pity-popularity at school, leans on her best friend, and grows in her understanding of her mother. She narrates with a relatively light, joke-cracking tone as her ballpoint pen doodles cartoon jibes at the things making her uncomfortable. Throughout, readers see how the teens condition affects her loving family and supportive best friend. Reassured by the preface, they will have no fear of Izzys recovery. Rather, the story focuses in great detail on her treatments and how she gets through them, holding out for a future in which she will have long, braided hair and a boyfriend who can deal with serious stuff like cancer.
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