false<![CDATA[Forever Changes]]>341653015:30 a.m., Brianna Pelletier gets ready for her daily pounding. As she lies on the couch, her dad beats her chest, then her back, coaxing the mucus out of her lungs. The pounding doesn’t take care of everything. Brianna’s held out for a long time, but a body with cystic fibrosis doesn’t last forever. It doesn’t matter that Brianna has a brilliant mathematical mind or that she’s a shoo-in for MIT. Or even that her two best friends are beautiful, popular, and loyal. In the grand scheme of things, none of that stuff matters at all. The standard life, lasting maybe seventy-five years, is no more than a speck in the sum total of the universe. At eighteen, and doubting she’ll make nineteen, Brianna is practically a nonentity. Of course she’s done the math. But in her senior year of high school, Brianna learns of another kind of math, in which an infinitely small, near-zero quantity can have profound effects on an entire system. If these tiny quantities didn’t exist, things wouldn’t make the same sense.
Funny, tear-jerking, and memorable, the author’s second novel for teens introduces readers to an extraordinary girl who learns that the meaning of forever can change, and that life – and death – is filled with infinite possibilities. 3456873292008Forever Changestotal:74|5:20|4:33|3:16|2:4|1:1|742891793130falsefalseMon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009Wed Jun 10 16:36:00 -0700 2009Wed Jun 10 17:29:34 -0700 2009
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Forever Changes jumps into the life of a girl, Bri, with Cystic Fibrosis - a disease/condition I know very little about.
It's an interesting read. Halpin doesn't make the book about Bri, or even about CF. He makes it about purpose.
Case in point: Throughout the narraration, ...more...]]>
50falsefalseThu Oct 30 19:02:23 -0700 2008Thu Oct 30 19:05:47 -0700 2008 Brianna Pelletier was born with a death sentence. Her DNA gave her Cystic Fibrosis. The only unknown for Brianna is how long she will have.
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