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Thompson, Gill
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Fiction
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2019
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HeadlinePublisher; Headline Review
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English
โ 239 KB
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โฆ LIBER โฆ
Warhead: the true story of one teen who almost saved the world
โ Scribed by Starlight Children's Foundation;Starlight Children's Foundation.;Henigson, Jeff
- Publisher
- Random House Children's Books; Delacorte Press
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 464 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- United States.
- ISBN
- 0525647910
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
An often hilarious and always relevant memoir about one teen boy's battle with brain cancer and his Starlight Children's Foundation wish: to meet Mikhail Gorbachev in Russia and plead for nuclear disarmament and world peace.
It's 1986, and Jeff is an average fifteen-year-old: he thinks a lot about dating, he bounces around with his friends, and he's trying his hardest to get a car. Conversely, the world around him feels crazy: the United States and the Soviet Union are at glaring odds, with their leaders in a standoff, and that awful word, "nuclear," is on everyone's mind. Then, boom--Jeff learns that he has brain cancer and it's likely terminal. Well, that puts a damper on his summer plans and romantic prospects, doesn't it?
Jeff's family rallies around him, but they are fiercely complicated--especially Jeff's father, a man who can't say "I love you" even during the worst of Jeff's treatment. So when the Starlight Children's Foundation offers to grant Jeff...
โฆ Subjects
Cancer patients -- Biography
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