This poignant story of a young girl coming to terms with a serious diagnosis, is a hopeful tale about overcoming life’s hurdles. Suddenly everything is different: not just her diet and the injections, but her relationships with her family and her friends. One day, after a collapse at a soccer game, she wakes up in the hospital to find out she’s got Type 1 diabetes. She’s tired all the time, and, most humiliating of all, she’s started wetting the bed like a baby. Lately, Sam has been crazy hungry and thirsty.
What doesn’t she love? Her super-annoying teenage brother, how her little sisters mess up the house and talk incessantly, and especially, how completely weird she is feeling. She loves ice cream, sleepovers, Christmas, and her soccer team (future team captain). Mack's novel addresses a real issue for kids to experience and deal with, and to come out at the end with perspective, a little education, but the good feelings of a beautiful novel. It's all magical adventures, awkward humour, or friendship stories. Personally, I think it's hard to find a really good "issues" book for the middle grade level.
Written by Canadian author, Winnie Mack, it is a beautifully written story about a girl who is changed forever by her diagnosis of Type 1 Diabetes. Bittersweet is one of the newest middle grade novels from Scholastic Canada.
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