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Ways to Live Forever
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Ways to Live Forever
by Sally Nicholls1. My name is Sam.
$16.99
2. I am eleven years old.
3. I collect stories and fantastic facts.
4. I have leukemia.
5. By the time you read this, I will probably be dead.
Living through the final stages of leukemia, Sam collects stories, questions, lists, and pictures that create a profoundly moving portrait of how a boy lives when he knows his time is almost up.
Hardcover Book | Grades 4-7
Grades 4-7 $16.99
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Ways to Live Forever
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Ways to Live Forever
by Sally Nicholls1. My name is Sam.
$16.99
2. I am eleven years old.
3. I collect stories and fantastic facts.
4. I have leukemia.
5. By the time you read this, I will probably be dead.
Living through the final stages of leukemia, Sam collects stories, questions, lists, and pictures that create a profoundly moving portrait of how a boy lives when he knows his time is almost up.
books;hardcover books;hardcovers | Ages 9-12
Ages 9-12 $16.99
Interest Level:
3-5
Lexile Framework:
580L
Grade Level Equivalent:
3.5
Age:
8-10
Genre:
Diaries and Journals, Realistic Fiction
Subject:
Confronting and Resolving Fears, Coping with Death, Grief, and Loss, Disease and Illness, Feelings and Emotions
An ALA Notable Children's Book
A new voice in fiction that will bring you to tears.
Living through the last stages of leukemia, Sam wants to know facts. Facts about UFO's, ghosts, airships, what it feels like to kiss a girl. Sam is full of questions nobody wants to answer, and he doesn't have much time left.
In the multiple hanky tradition of classic tearjerkers, this moving and ultimately uplifting account of a boy's final months is impossible to read with a dry eye. Written as a collection of journal entries, lists, questions, and photographs, Sam's story answers one question on its own. What matters most when every minute counts?
* "Nicholls creates a character and a world that are authentic, buoyant, honest, and stripped of sentimentality.The energy and joy of this novel is a remarkable feat." — Horn Book, starred review
* "...it skirts easy sentiment to confront the hard questions head-on, intelligently and realistically and with an enormous range of feeling...with humor, grace and generosity of spirit—will bring on tears; more impressively, it will also help readers address the hard questions for themselves." — Publishers Weekly, starred review
* "Well researched and beautifully written, the book is equal to the best of children's literature about death and dying...Sam is a child whom readers would want as a friend and he will be missed when the book is done." — School Library Journal, starred review
"Nicholls’s debut skillfully avoids bathos at every turn, sketching a fully-formed character readers will be glad they’ve met and sorry to bid farewell." — Kirkus Reviews
