Raney, Karen

Sixteen-year-old Maddy is smart, deep-thinking, and funny, with loyal friends, a loving mother, and a crush on Jack. She also has cancer. Forced to mature quickly, Maddy tells her story, moving from their home in Pennsylvania to Washington, DC, and ultimately to London, searching for her dad, and for all of the life experiences she can have to defy her cancer.

"Maddy is sixteen. She has loyal friends, a mother with whom she's unusually close, a father she's never met, devoted grandparents, and a crush on a boy named Jack. Maddy also has cancer. Deeply curious, wry, and vivacious, she's poised at the outset of adulthood, ready to untangle all the mysteries that living holds--if she survives her teens"--Provided by publisher.

"Maddy is sixteen. She has loyal friends, a mother with whom she's unusually close, a father she's never met, devoted grandparents, and a crush on a boy named Jack. Maddy also has cancer. Deeply curious, wry, and vivacious, she's poised at the outset of adulthood, ready to untangle all the mysteries that living holds--if she survives her teens"--Provided by publisher.