Ways to live forever

✍ Scribed by Sally Nicholls

• Book ID: 104476474
• Publisher: Marion Lloyd Books
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 3 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781407132792

✦ Synopsis

Sam Oliver McQueen is an 11-year-old boy with cancer. When his best friend Felix dies, he doesn't know what to do because he always looked up to him and his bad boy style. Sam is puzzled by the sadness and writes in his book that everyone should have been happy and making jokes and how Felix should have worn his favorite top. Having said, that he told in his book he wanted to make sure no one would do that at his funeral. A couple of weeks later, the doctors realize the medication isn't working as well and Sam makes the decision to stop all medication; Sam was sick and tired of taking things that never worked on him so he gave up Sam finishes his list of "Things to do" and about a month later he has a dream: all his family (his dad, his mum and his sister Ella) are all sleeping together… then he wakes up and sees his dads face. His dad says "I love you", but Sam drifts back asleep. Sam dies in his sleep; but he has given his parents a form to fill in about his death so he could finish his book. The last comment is made by his father, who says, "Sam died quietly in his sleep. He was in no pain.

The book was made into a film during 2010.