Ways to Live Forever - Softcover

Sally Nicholls

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ISBN 10: 1407130501 ISBN 13: 9781407130507

Publisher: Marion Lloyd Books, 2012

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My name is Sam. I am eleven years old. I collect stories and fantastic facts. By the time you read this, I will probably be dead. Sam loves facts. He wants to know about UFOs and horror movies and airships and ghosts and scientists, and how it feels to kiss a girl. And because he has leukaemia he wants to know the facts about dying. Sam needs answers to the questions nobody will answer. "Ways to Live Forever" is the first novel from an extraordinarily talented young writer. Funny and honest, it is one of the most powerful and uplifting books you will ever read.

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About the Author:

SALLY NICHOLLS completed an MA in Writing for Young People at Bath Spa University (UK), where she won the prize for the writer who showed the most potential. She now lives in London, where she is working on her second novel.

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Sam, who is only 11, has leukemia. His mother cries a lot, and his father is in denial, but Sam doesn't hesitate to ask hard questions as he faces the end of his latest course of treatment. Mostly, he tries to keep living life instead of waiting for death. This is a first-person point of view story with collections of lists, assorted oddball facts, and poignant, often-funny, observations. Charlotte Parry does a wonderful job with the Brit-accented lads Sam and his querulous friend Felix, who wants to blow something up rather than go quietly into that good night. This is no sad end-of-life tale but rather a gripping how-to-live-forever quest. Parry makes us wish Sam's voice could be with us at least that long. M.C.C. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award � AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine

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