Time passes, and Alex finally decides to forgive Becca. Then she’s hit with another shocker: Becca has cancer. It also turns out Becca has a bucket list, one she doesn’t know she’ll be able to finish now. That’s where Alex comes in, along with a mysterious and guarded boy who just may help Alex check a few items off her own bucket list.
Julie Halpern writes about illness, loss, love, and friendship with candor and compassion. Here is an unforgettable book about living fully, living authentically, and just . . . living.
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Julie Halpern is the author of Get Well Soon, Into the Wild Nerd Yonder and Don't Stop Now, as well as the picture book Toby and the Snowflakes. In addition to writing, Julie is a middle-school librarian. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, lived in Australia for six months, and created a couple of zines before she started writing books, and realized she was and always has been a writer. She is married to the artist Matthew Cordell, and they live outside Chicago with their daughter and gloriously large Siamese cat, Tobin.
Follow her on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Julie-Halpern/416793525051659?fref=ts
or Twitter: @juliehalpern
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Oooo, mysterious boy.
ReplyDeletethe bucket list aspect of it seems really interesting!
ReplyDeleteI think it sounds intriguing and I love the title beyond reasonable measure. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteI like that Alex helps Becca when she needs her the most.
ReplyDeleteThe bucket list sounds interesting
ReplyDeleteFriendship~ Looking good.
ReplyDeleteI'm curious what happened at the funeral to nearly end Becca and Alex's friendship, and I like that the tension from that will probably carry through their reconciliation.
ReplyDeleteWow! This book looks amazing!
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a book journey I'd like to go on!
ReplyDeletesounds like lots of struggle and trying to overcome, life sucks - regnod(at)yahoo(d0t)com
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