Sort of Forever - Softcover

Warner, Sally

Softcover

ISBN 10: 037580207X ISBN 13: 9780375802072

Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers, 1999

Synopsis

Sally Warner breaks new ground with a powerful story about the toughest test of friendship.         For as long as Cady Winton can remember, she and Nana Weber have done everything together, from cutting each other's hair to daring themselves to ride the scariest roller coaster at Magic Mountain. And both had been looking forward to starting middle school together in the fall. But just when Cady and Nana were anticipating being teenagers, their plans spin away from them. At the age of twelve, Nana is diagnosed with bone cancer, and suddenly the present is so much more important than the future.        With refreshing honesty, Sally Warner helps brush aside the mysticism of dying and replaces it with the courage of friendship. Comforting and profoundly moving, Sort of Forever is, by turns, a sincere, funny, painful, and uplifting view of dying, as well as a celebration of life.  

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Review

If you're lucky, at least once you find a "forever friend"--someone you can be angry at one minute and hugging the next, someone you know you'll want to be friends with your whole life. Cady and Nana have that sort of friendship. Nothing could ever stop them from being there for each other--or could it? When Nana is diagnosed with terminal cancer, their friendship undergoes its biggest test. Always a writer to go straight to the heart of matters, Sally Warner wastes no time in bringing readers right into the middle of this inspiring relationship. The subject matter is difficult: no one wants to imagine a best friend dying. Warner conveys Nana's deterioration (and Cady's reaction to it) in a welcome, straightforward, and honest manner, and she does so with such warmth that the real point of this story never gets lost. Sort of Forever is not a morbid novel about death. Instead, Warner has written a joyful celebration of friendship that knows no bounds.

From the Back Cover

"The talented Warner has previously explored the themes of friendship and change, but never more powerfully or affectingly than in this piercing novel. Driven almost exclusively by dialogue, her narrative focuses on the necessarily metamorphosing relationship between the often needy 12-year-old Cady and her normally independent, feisty best friend, Nana, who is dying of cancer."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Readers will share the rush of emotions in this heartbreaking but satisfying story."--Booklist

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 037580207X
• ISBN 13: 9780375802072
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 136