- Death, Families, Juvenile fiction, Leukemia
Eleven-year-old Sam McQueen, who has leukemia, writes a book during the last three months of his life, in which he tells about what he would like to accomplish, how he feels, and things that have happened to him.
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Spare, earnest, contemplative and grave.
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Sally Nicholls, Sally Nicholls
- First published
- 1974
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- Scholastic, Inc., .???, Marion Lloyd
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9782266251136
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