Confessions of a Teenage Leper
β Scribed by Little, Ashley
- Book ID
- 110378578
- Publisher
- PRH Canada Young Readers
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 541 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780735262614
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Cheerleading, mean girls, shopping . . . and leprosy? High school is about to get complicated. For fans of Before I Fall and Exit, Pursued By a Bear.
Abby Furlowe has plans. Big plans. She's hot, she's popular, she's a cheerleader and she's going to break out of her small Texas town and make it big. Fame and fortune, adoration and accolades. It'll all be hers.
But then she notices some spots on her skin. She writes them off as a rash, but things only get worse. She's tired all the time, her hands and feet are numb and her face starts to look like day-old pizza. By the time her seventeenth birthday rolls around, she's tried every cream and medication the doctors have thrown at her, but nothing works. When she falls doing a routine cheerleading stunt and slips into a coma, her mystery illness goes into overdrive and finally gets diagnosed: Hansen's Disease, aka leprosy.
Abby is sent to a facility to recover and deal with this new reality. Her many...
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