Hardcover, 271 pages
English language
Published March 15, 2010 by Scholastic Press.
Jeffrey isn't a little boy with cancer anymore. He's a teen who's in remission, but life still feels fragile. The aftereffects of treatment have left Jeffrey with an inability to be a great student, or to walk without limping. His parents still worry about him. His older brother, Steven, lost it and took off to Africa to be in a drumming circle and 'find himself'. Jeffrey has a little soul searching to do, too, which begins with his escalating anger at Steven, an old friend who is keeping something secret, and a girl who is way out of his league but who thinks he's cute.
[guessing at the star rating / mining my old FB notes now that they are almost impossible to find]
convincingly told from an eighth grade boy, this YA novel is about cancer diagnosis survival, 'late effects', and standardized testing. hope it's not too much a spoiler alert when i say: it had me in tears by the end..
