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Side Effects
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As if it isnÕt bad enough to have cancer, practically every time we pick up a book or hear about a character in a movie who gets sick, we know theyÕll be dead by the last scene. In reality, kids get all kinds of cancers, go through unspeakable torture and painful treatments, but walk away, fine in the end. Isabelle, not quite 15, is living a normal life of fighting with her younger brother, being disgusted with her parents, and hoping to be noticed by a cute guy. Everything changes in an instant when she is diagnosed with lymphomaÑand even her best friend, Kay, thinks Izzy is going to die. But she doesnÕt, and her humorÑsardonic, sharp, astuteÑmakes reading this book accessible and actually enjoyable.
