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One Last Wish: Three Novels (Mother, Help Me Live / Let Him Live / Sixteen and Dying)

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How will you feel if someone tells you that you only have six more months to live? What will you do if you discover that you are diagnosed with Leukemia? And how will you help a boy who has tons of wishes to fulfill in his life, but is dying because he needs an urgent liver transplant? In this novel, the author Lurlene McDaniel writes three touching and heart-warming stories all about teenagers diagnosed with life-threatening diseases. The first story, Mother Help Me live, describes an adopted child, Sara, suffering from Leukemia. In order for her to survive, she must find her birth mother. Readers read a long stream of struggling from Sara¡¦s disbelief in her adoption, up to the end when a shocking fact about her birth mother is revealed. The importance of love and family is showed¡Xfamily members will always love each other no matter if they are blood related or not. I am really touched by the story because I can almost feel how Sara is hurting mentally and physically, and how hopeless but optimistic her family is. In the other story, Sixteen and Dying, Ann discovers that she is infected with HIV. She has the opportunity to go to a ranch and spend her last wonderful times there, and she meets someone who changes her life. We can see step by step how angry and confused she feels when she knows she has HIV, and when she finally understands to accept what she can¡¦t change, face the reality, and live as happy as she can. These stories are all based on a person known as JWC generously donating checks to these ill teenagers, letting them use the money to accomplish what they want before they die. These novels have made me cry, and every time I start reading, I need a box of tissue beside me. Before, I always whined about how my life was horrible with all the homework and pressure from schoolwork. But after reading Lurlene McDaniels¡¦ stories and seeing how teenagers my age are suffering from much more than I am, I finally started to appreciate what I had, stopped complaining, and always thought on the bright side.

I think that this novel is one of Lurlene's Best. After reading all of her books, and being a fan for more than 6 years, I can say that this book is as wonderfully inspiring as the rest, but it's my favorite because it's a little more traumatic. You feel more sorry for Richard because he's loosing his love, than for Jenny becuase she's dying. I've always enjoyed light love stories, and if you also like dramatical twists, I would recomend this book, along with all the other Mcdaniels.

One Last Wish is the story of a girl named who lives with her grandmother on the eastern coast of the United States. As in all of Lurlene McDaniel's Books, there is a tragedy of an illness involved. Jenny is diagnosed with Leukemia and through the plot learns what the hard conditions of being a cancer patient is. Her grandmother is very wealthy which enables Jenny to have special care even though she doesn't want the extra attention. She just wanted to get through the hard times as quickly as possible and get into a remission.

Jenny and her grandmother aren't the only people that are worried. Richard--Jenny's best friend since she was 8 years old--has not been able to see her, because she doesn't want him to see her so sick. Richard loves her dearly and she loves him to, but she doesn't want him to see her in such pain.

This book has been inspirational to me in many ways. I knew cancer was a deadly illness that some people get through and some people die from. I think that this made me more aware of what some teens have to go through. No one should have to endure such awful pain in their life.

I reccomend this book to anyone who knows people going through some sort of an illness or any of Lurlene McDaniel's books. Lurlene tends to write about people dealing with illnesses and all of her books are heartwarming and sentimental.

A long time ago i read this book and it was the first LM book I ever read. I loved it!!! Lurlene McDaniel is my fave author and I'm pretty sure I've read all her books. What can I say?:Im a HUGE fan! her novels relate to real-life stories, so they are very sad but they make you wish you could help people who are suffering from diseases or a crisis like the characters in LM's books.

I knew that LM's books would take over me. cuz once i read this book,all 3 of the novels, my eyes got damp and thats when i knew. a book had never made me cry like that before. not ever

This is one of the best books that I have ever read, i was so into it, I finsihed the first story in less than 3 hours. It also helps with problems , the first story talks about cancer, and one of my loved ones is dealing with cancer, and it made me feel better afer I read it, these are very inspirational stories, and will show you that there is more to life than the little things.

I just finished reading all three stories in this book, and I must say, Lurlene McDaniel still has the ability to create amazing and emotional stories for her readers. I have been a Lurlene McDaniel fan for many years, and it all began when I read "Six Months To Live". Her stories really bring to life the struggles that so many young people go through. All three of these stories had a major impact on me, but I think the greatest impact was brought on by "Sixteen and Dying". It's hard to explain why, exactly, but it did. At any rate, I think that any fan of Ms. McDaniel's, be they old, new, or never read any of her books before, should read these three stories.

I have been a huge fan of Lurlene McDaniel's for years. When I was 10 I was diagnosed with a kidney disease, I've had a transplant and I'm back on dialysis now 'cause it failed and I have never known how to put what I was feeling into words, but somehow McDaniel does it over and over again in each of her books. She is the only author that can make me cry. This book is excellent...I was up til 2 a.m. just this morning finishing it 'cause I just couldn't bare to put it down. I recommend you read this book if your looking for excellent stories with good messages.

I have been a huge fan of Lurlene McDaniel's for years. When I was 10 I was diagnosed with a kidney disease, I've had a transplant and I'm back on dialysis now 'cause it failed and I have never known how to put what I was feeling into words, but somehow McDaniel does it over and over again in each of her books. She is the only author that can make me cry. This book is excellent...I was up til 2 a.m. just this morning finishing it 'cause I just couldn't bare to put it down. I recommend you read this book if your looking for excellent stories with good messages.

It's hard for Anne Wingate and her father to accept the doctor's diagnosis: Anne is HIV positive. Seven years earlier, before blood screening was required. Anne received a transfusion to save her life, and the blood was tainted. Now Anne must deal with inevitable progression of her condition. When an anonymous benefactor promises to grant a single wish with no strings attached, Anne decides to spend the summer on a ranch out west and live as normally as she possibly can. ONE LAST WISH is the novel that will make you cry and it can keep you up all night to get to the last page. Lurlene McDaniel is very good at describing people. You better get the book and strat them right away.

This book combines three books from the One Last Wish series into one volume- Mother, Help Me Live, Let Him Live and Sixteen and Dying. My favourite of these was Mother, Help Me Live as it had very realistic characters and a powerful storyline which made you just have to read on. It was the story of a girl, Sarah who has leukiema. She is adopted and is forced to search for her birth mother after she learns she desperatly needs a bone marrow transplant. I also enjoyed Sixteen and Dying, but the third book just wasn't as good as the other two. I didn't find the characters so good. I reccommend these books to anyone.