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Maybe One Day by Melissa Kantor

Maybe One Day

by Melissa Kantor

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  • Feb 2014, 400 pages
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A person's whole life, she's lucky to have one or two real friends. Friends who are like family... for Zoe that someone is Olivia. So when Olivia is diagnosed with leukemia Zoe is determined to put on a brave face and be positive for her best friend.

Even when she isn't sure what to say.

Even when Olivia misses months of school.

Even when Zoe starts falling for Calvin, Olivia's crush.

The one thing that keeps Zoe moving forward is knowing that Olivia will beat this, and everything will go back to the way it was before. It has to. Because the alternative is too terrifying for her to even imagine.

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"Eschewing melodrama and sentimentality, Kantor is on solid ground with every aspect of the novel." - Publishers Weekly

"Teens, heartache and acute illness: The tears will flow. Fiction. 13 & up." - Kirkus

"A beautiful, heartbreaking story about friendship, loss, and what it means to truly live. I loved it." - Lauren Barnholdt, author of The Thing About the Truth and Two-Way Street

"Zoe and Olivia's deep, real friendship and all its complications ring so true that you will want to hug your best friend close. I adored this book." - Jenn Echols, author of Forget You and Going too Far

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Sarah Jones

Bittersweet book, sugary review
I highly reccommend this book for anyone looking to have a good cry, laughter and a yearning for a friendship like Zoe and Olivia's, this is a teen tragedy at it's finest.

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Melissa Kantor

Melissa Kantor is the author of Confessions of a Not It Girl, an ALA Booklist Best Romance Novel for Youth; If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where's My Prince?, a YALSA Teens Top Ten Pick; The Breakup Bible, an ALA Best Books for Young Adults nominee; Girlfriend Material, a Junior Library Guild selection; and The Darlings Are Forever and The Darlings in Love, a Junior Library Guild selection. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her family.

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