A Rose for Melinda
by Lurlene McDaniel
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Jesse, shocked to learn that his long-time friend Melinda has leukemia at such as young age, hopes for her recovery.Tags
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"A Rose for Melinda" deals with friendship, illness and death. I quite liked the format of the book with the story being told solely through emails, letters, text messages, journal entries and doctors' reports, but the plot felt rushed and I didn't engage with the characters. By the end of the book I should have been sobbing; instead I was left cold. Whilst not a bad book, it could have been so much better.
Soon as I picked up this book, I wasn't able to put it down. A definite good read. I would recommend this book to absolutely anyone.
It tells the story of Melinda Skye, a beautiful and talented ballerina dancer whose dreams are to one day join a dance troup and become a professional ballerina. Yet when her dreams are within reach, Melinda faints and has to be rushed to the emergency room. Where soon, the doctors once thought it might be just a bad case of flu or a severe case of anemia, slowly they begin to realize, Melinda, only 13 at the time, is now diagonised with Lukemia.
Through letters to her childhood friend, Jesse; Melinda finds the strength to go on and fight her cancer. Once in remission, her cancer seems to be at bay..and show more once she realizes she's in love with Jesse, her cancer comes back. At fifteen, she dies of her cancer and leaves behind letters to her loved ones...
At least she got a second chance to live. show less
It tells the story of Melinda Skye, a beautiful and talented ballerina dancer whose dreams are to one day join a dance troup and become a professional ballerina. Yet when her dreams are within reach, Melinda faints and has to be rushed to the emergency room. Where soon, the doctors once thought it might be just a bad case of flu or a severe case of anemia, slowly they begin to realize, Melinda, only 13 at the time, is now diagonised with Lukemia.
Through letters to her childhood friend, Jesse; Melinda finds the strength to go on and fight her cancer. Once in remission, her cancer seems to be at bay..and show more once she realizes she's in love with Jesse, her cancer comes back. At fifteen, she dies of her cancer and leaves behind letters to her loved ones...
At least she got a second chance to live. show less
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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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