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Chemo Girl: Saving the World One Treatment at a Time

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Chemo-Girl is exactly what it sounds like -- it's a story that aims to help children who have been diagnosed with cancer. For a 12 year old, it is extremely well imagined and structured: this book makes chemotherapy understandable to children and, in the process, a good deal less scary. It also helps those siblings and friends surrounding a chemo patient understand the therapy without intimidating or frightening language. I would seriously recommend this book to parents and friends of children with cancer being treated with chemotherapy and the great patients themsleves . . . Anything that helps, folks, anything taht helps.

Chemo Girl is an inspirational book for children and adults. The postive outlook that Christina Portrays through her character, Chemo Girl, gives children hope when dealing with cancer. It helps to allay the fears, of death, that the word cancer implies. It shows that the physician and the medication, are tools to help deal with this life-threatening disease. The lanquage allows children to understand the medical terminology associated with cancer. Christina has captured a very difficult subject through her super-hero character, Chemo Girl, and showed that there is always hope.

Christina was not only a best friend to me but an inspiration. This book makes me so proud of her and i'm glad that we have this from her to allow her to live on through it. The book is about a super hero named Chemo Girl which simplifies the idea's and terminology of what treatments are like when you have cancer for a child or even an adult to understand in an entertaining way. Chemo Girl provides hope for all the readers no matter what the situation. Chemo Girl is a great book written truly from the heart of Christina (who also did all the drawings!) I think that everyone that reads should read and be touched by this book as much as I have !! Christina you saw your dream come true , now watch down on me and your mom as we make sure everyone else see's it too !!!!

Written for a little older child, but when you are trying to normalize Chemo in their life anything is worth a try and this one gets their attention.

I was looking for a book to help explain my 4 yo daughter's leukemia to her. After finding lots of really BAD books, we ran into Chemo Girl. FABULOUS book that is written by a 9 year old girl with cancer. She introduces a superhero to help a child with cancer. Chemo Girl races to the rescue and defeats the cancer. The story gives an uplifting hopeful spin on the chemotherapy treatments that kids get. Doesn't explain the disease process for leukemia or other cancers, but does give a hopeful picture.

Pros - drawings, storyline, inspiring.
cons - may cover treatments that your child doesn't have (like radiation - which now scares my daughter). Nothing else. Get this book!

Do get this book!

Chemo Girl is a fun story written by a girl who is undergoing treatment for cancer. She weaves terms into characters and events in the story to create an understanding of Chemo Therapy, and what it is doing to fight the cancer. It is a creative look into a complicated topic that kids can understand. I gave this book to one of my elementary students who is currently in treatment so she could get a grasp of what chemo is and how it works in the battle. This is an excellent book for an children facing such a challenge.

I didn't know Christina Richmond well when she was alive. I saw her occasionally at 1 thing or another, and she was always a great person. Her book is a reminder to those who ever knew her (even just a little bit, like me)and a guide, for those who never had the priveledgeto know what a special person she was. She had a srenght like nobody else, and was always positive. This book serves as a readable memorial to Chemo-girl, who is now an angel.