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Awards
Shortlisted for Brandford Boase Award 2008.Shortlisted for Branford Boase Award 2008.
Shortlisted for Guardian Children's Fiction Award 2008.
Winner of Inky Awards: Silver Inky 2008.
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Description
"This intensely moving story is now available in paperback.
"Tessa has just months to live. Fighting back against hospital visits, endless tests, and drugs with excruciating side effects, Tessa compiles a list. It's her To Do Before I Die list. And number one is Sex. Released from the constraints
of "normal" life, Tessa tastes new experiences to make her feel alive while her failing body struggles to keep up.
Tessa's feelings, her relationships with her father and brother, her estranged mother, her best friend, and her new boyfriend, are all painfully crystallized in the precious weeks before Tessa's time finally runs out.
"A "Publishers Weekly "Best Children's Book of the Year
A "Booklist "Editors' Choice
A Book Sense Children's Pick
A "Kirkus Reviews "Editors' Choice
A "Publishers Weekly "Flying Start Author
An ALA-YALSA Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults"
"Tessa has just months to live. Fighting back against hospital visits, endless tests, and drugs with excruciating side effects, Tessa compiles a list. It's her To Do Before I Die list. And number one is Sex. Released from the constraints
of "normal" life, Tessa tastes new experiences to make her feel alive while her failing body struggles to keep up.
Tessa's feelings, her relationships with her father and brother, her estranged mother, her best friend, and her new boyfriend, are all painfully crystallized in the precious weeks before Tessa's time finally runs out.
"A "Publishers Weekly "Best Children's Book of the Year
A "Booklist "Editors' Choice
A Book Sense Children's Pick
A "Kirkus Reviews "Editors' Choice
A "Publishers Weekly "Flying Start Author
An ALA-YALSA Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults"
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This book is a young adult novel. It is written by Jenny Downham and was published in 2007. The book tells a story about the life that is sadly ending for Tessa Scott, aged 16, written from her perspective.
16 year old Tessa Scott has been battling... more
16 year old Tessa Scott has been battling... more
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