How Do I Love Thee
by Lurlene McDaniel
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A collection of three stories in which teenagers facing life-threatening illnesses find that love can make all things bearable.Tags
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How Do I Love Thee contains three stories about teens dealing with love and illness. The first story is about a boy who falls in love with a girl whose medical issues isolate her from the rest of the world. The second story is about a girl who is torn between her love of two brothers. The third story is about a chronically ill girls who falls in love with an ex-gang member who works at the hospital. I can see how McDaniel's novels would appeal to teens and young adults. The characters struggle with many of the issues that teenagers are dealing with everyday. It was a little dramatic for me, I have never been a fan of sad stories and they were a little to full of teenage angst for my tastes. Overall it was OK, but my appreciation for it show more suffered because I have recently read John Green's The Fault of Our Stars which covered similar issues and themes, but much better. show less
there are not enough words in the whole universe to sum up this book, it made me laugh and cry, and everything in between, the best book iv ever read, by far, and iv read MANY.
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Lurlene McDaniel was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 5, 1944. She received a B.A. in English from the University of South Florida in Tampa. Before she started writing young adult books, she wrote a magazine column and promos and commercials at a television station. After her children were born, she turned to freelance advertising. When show more her son was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes at the age of 3, she attended a convention for diabetes and met up with the organizer who connected her with a publishing company specializing in children's books. Her first book was Kickaroo: The Soccer Playing Kangaroo. She soon realized that writing picture books was not what she wanted to do, so she wrote Will Never Dance Again, about a girl who is diagnosed with diabetes. Thus began her career writing stories about teenagers who overcome life altering illnesses and the lessons learned. Her other books include Somewhere Between Life and Death, Too Young to Die, Goodbye Doesn't Mean Forever, Six Months to Live, and The Year of Chasing Dreams. She received a RITA Award for Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep and three IRA-CBC Children's Choice Awards. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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