Sugar Isn't Everything

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Amy couldn't figure out why she felt terrible all of the time. No matter how much she ate or drank, she was always hungry and thirsty. She was too tired to go running with her older brother, and her temper kept getting shorter and shorter. Worst of all, it didn't seem to be getting better...

Then, one day, Amy collapsed. She was rushed to the hospital. And there, what she thought was the flu turned out to be diabetes. The doctors told her that ...

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Overview

Amy couldn't figure out why she felt terrible all of the time. No matter how much she ate or drank, she was always hungry and thirsty. She was too tired to go running with her older brother, and her temper kept getting shorter and shorter. Worst of all, it didn't seem to be getting better...

Then, one day, Amy collapsed. She was rushed to the hospital. And there, what she thought was the flu turned out to be diabetes. The doctors told her that she was never going to get over it. Amy was stuck with diabetes forever.

Told in sympathetic and informative fashion by a highly acclaimed author - herself a diabetic - Amy's story will reassure, strengthen, and inform not only readers with diabetes themselves, but everyone who cares about them.

A detailed description of juvenile-onset diabetes (Type I) using a fictional form in which eleven-year-old Amy discovers that she has the disease, learns to treat it and to deal with her anger, and finally accepts that she CAN live with it.

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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
With this coping-with-diabetes novel, Roberts sets out mainly to provide information, since she herself is a recently diagnosed diabetic. Still, her fictional format works smoothly. Eleven-year-old Amy wonders what's wrongshe's ravenous, can't get enough juice and has to run to the bathroom often. After she collapses, her disease is diagnosed and she begins the long road toward adjustment. Readers find out that forward-thinking hospitals allow children to visit patients, hold classes and support groups for adolescents and give people the courage to inject themselves. Roberts infuses her characters with believable thoughts and emotions Amy wonders if she'll ever feel normal again and realizes people are glad they don't have her bad luck. A useful book for other chronic illnesses as well, particularly its discussion of anger. Ages 9-up. (March)
School Library Journal
Gr 5-8 While this reads like a case history or a manual for newly diagnosed diabetics, it also will have appeal for readers of realistic problem novels. Amy, 11, is hiding her diabetic symptoms as the book begins, not knowing what they are. Her overwhelming hunger and thirst, her fatigue, and her frequent need to urinate are masked with the determination that only a budding adolescent who doesn't want to appear ``different'' can muster. Complete collapse ensues, and friends, family, teachers, and Amy herself must make the painful, permanent adjustments to her new condition. It's difficult for all, but more so for Amy because the adjustments are forever. As Amy discovers, diabetes is a lonely disease, for diabetics lookand are well while their systems are in balance, so support, empathy, and sympathy from others can be spasmodic, even when welcome. While the plot follows a predictable line, and most of the characters never truly come to life, the book is empathy-inducing. For young diabetics, it is bibliotherapy. For non-diabetics, it is informative about a silent, potentially life-threatening illness and its treatment. It certainly has a place on the shelfand may circulate a good deal of the time. Patricia Manning, Eastchester Public Library, N.Y.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780689712258
  • Publisher: Aladdin
  • Publication date: 5/23/2012
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 190
  • Age range: 8 - 12 Years
  • Lexile: 810L (what's this?)
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 7.62 (h) x 0.50 (d)

Meet the Author

Willo Davis Roberts wrote many books for adults and children during

her long and illustrious career. Three of her children's books won Edgar

Awards, while others received great reviews and other accolades. The

One Left Behind would have been her hundredth book for children.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 16, 2002

    Love it!

    I read this book years ago and loved it. Now I am going to get a copy for my cousin who was just diagnosed with diabetes. Great book!

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