Has a bucket list of things she wants to do before she dies, and makes Zoey and Adam help. Characters Tessa Scottġ6-year-old battling leukemia. The book, written in first person from Tessa’s point of view, follows her last few months of life, explores her relationships with her loved ones, and her personal feelings about being trapped in a failing body. Adam is shy, and his main priority is taking care of his sickly mother after his father died. One of Tessa’s last wishes is to find love, of which she thinks she has with her neighbor Adam. In the beginning of the novel, Cal says to his sister “I’m gonna miss you” during a joking situation. Tessa’s brother, Cal, is a brutally honest individual who has mixed feelings throughout the novel ranging from lack of care to jealousy to sadness. She mentions that he spends hours on the computer looking up possible treatments for her even after the doctors have told her that cancer has consumed her body. Her father’s main mechanism for coping is denial.
He is resistant to Tessa’s behavior from the start, but realizes he has little influence and can only enjoy the time they have left. Tessa’s father is timid and just wants to spend time with his daughter.
Her mother is loving and joking about the situation and seems supportive however, she has not been present in Tessa’s treatments, nor involved in her life at a deep level. Tessa’s parents are divorced and have very different views on her desire to experience the dangerous side of life before she passes. Zoey is excited and supportive of the outrageous bucket list until an unplanned pregnancy test comes up positive. Tessa, with the help of her best friend Zoey, comes up with a list of things she wants to do before she dies, including some risky behaviors that she deems necessary to have “lived”. Despite four years of chemotherapy, she has discovered that her cancer is terminal and her doctors give her a short time to live. Tessa is diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
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