Ways to Live Forever by Sally Nicholls

Ways to Live Forever by Sally Nicholls

From award-winning author Sally Nicholls, her debut novel about a boy's last months with leukemia.

1. My name is Sam.

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.

I]t skirts easy sentiment to confront the hard questions head-on, intelligently and realistically and with an enormous range of feeling. -- Publishers Weekly, starred review

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

The energy and joy of this novel is a remarkable feat. -- Horn Book, starred review

Sally Nicholls grew up in Stockton-on-Tees, and after school, travelled the world, working for a period at a Red Cross hospital in Japan. Sally's first novel, Ways to Live Forever, won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and she has been shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Costa Children's Book Award, and the Carnegie Medal, twice. She lives in Oxford.

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ISBN 13	9780545069489
ISBN 10	0545069483
Title	Ways to Live Forever
Author	Sally Nicholls
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Arthur A. Levine Books
Year published	2008-09-01
Number of pages	212
Prizes	Short-listed for Nene Award 2012, Short-listed for West Virginia Children's Book Award 2011
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.