![]() ![]() ![]() Ross has a best friend, Abby, who helps be the support he needs as does his dad and step mom. Throughout the 41 chapters there will be points where you can’t stop reading and others where you will need to step away to take a deep breath. Or does he? Both old and new friendships are tested and the middle grade voice coming through is one of the strongest and accurate you’ll ever find in MG lit. This begins the emotional, funny, and gut wrenching look into a year Ross would prefer never happened. The kind they threaten to destroy the planet with. It looks like one of those room-sized five-ton laser things supervillains use in movies. I’m lying on a steel table, all too aware of the giant ray gun pointed in my direction. He doesn’t want to lose his hair, or wear a weird hat, or deal with the disappearing friends who don’t know what to say to “the cancer kid.” But with his recent diagnosis of a rare eye cancer, blending in is off the table.īased on Rob Harrell’s real life experience, and packed with comic panels and spot art, this incredibly personal and poignant novel is an unforgettable, heartbreaking, hilarious, and uplifting story of survival and finding the music, magic, and laughter in life’s weirdness. Ross Maloy just wants to be a normal seventh grader. ![]()
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