SOLVED. Children's Fiction Novel about being sick or being in the hospital. Publish in 1980s. [s]

[Kate]

I read this book a couple years in a row as a child - checked in out of the library. From what I can remember it was about a girl being sick and having to be admitted to the hospital/having a surgery. Would have been published in the 1980s. Hard cover book was blue Thanks!

[Tab]

Do you remember the girls illness?
Time period/location story takes place?
Part of a series?
Remember anything about the girl's family, friends, doctors, etc?

[Rainbowheart]

How old was the girl, teenager or a younger child?

[Jaki]

Could it be Just Like Always by Elizabeth Ann Sachs? Two girls form a friendship in the hospital. They are both there to have surgery for scoliosis. One of them is more rebellious, one more reserved.

[Michelle]

A Night Without Stars by James Howe?

[SamSpayedPI]

Just Like Always for Jaki's link.

[Kate]

Neither of those suggestions look like it. I feel like the illness was something she could have surgery to fix. I will put the age of the main character between 8-12? I could be totally reaching but feel like the work "afraid" might have been in the title?

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Why Me?

[Paige]

Jenny's in the Hospital
Goodbye, Tonsils first pub 1978
Rita Goes to the Hospital pub. 1992, cover is blue
It Can't Hurt Forever

[Kate]

WOW - thanks Paige, it was the last one - It Can't Hurt Forever

Looking forward to finding this again to read it

[Paige]

Yay! Glad I could help you find your book.