Needles : a memoir of growing up with diabetes
(Book)

"A Touchstone book."

All her life, Andie Dominick adored her older sister, Denise. She wanted to be like her, talk like her, be her. Unfortunately, she got part of her wish when she was nine, she was diagnosed with the same disease from which Denise had survived since age two: juvenile diabetes. In this beautifully written, revelatory, and profound affecting memoir, Dominick recounts her transformation from a free-spirited kid who enjoyed giving shots to her stuffed animals with her sister's castaway needles to a sick patient who must learn to inject herself twice a day. Emotionally charged, but in the end hopeful, Dominick tells how she found the courage to embrace love and hope in the face of fear, and to live with a disease that has taken so much from her.

ALA Top YA Book of the Year; Booklist starred review

$13.00