Literature Circle/Non-Fiction Article

     Will Jeffery change if he were to become closer with Lindsey? In the book After Ever After Jeffery and Tad are best friends and Tad tutors Jeff in math so that he could do good on the test. They both work out and help each other during hard times. Jeff tries to help Tad get out of his wheelchair and walk again, but Tad doesn't want to because of his weird limp and Tad helps Jeff run on the treadmill so that he could run further during gym. Their eighth grade graduation is coming up and Tad has a crazy plan before they graduate.
     The similarities between After Ever After and "Surviving a rare cancer, a teen helps study it" is that they both talk about kids surviving cancer because in the book it states that, "Me: Well, you see, I, uh, I'm a cancer survivor. Person #1: And how's that working out for you? Me: Well, you see, I, uh, I used to have leukemia. Person #2: Dude, how come you're not like, bald? Me: Well, you see, I, uh, I had acute lymphocytic lymphoma when I was five. Person #3: Whoa, that must'a sucked. I once had my tonsils out (Sonnenblick page 54)..." This quote shows that Jeff is explaining to the persons what type of cancer he had and he survived that cancer. In the article it states that, "First the teenager survived a rare cancer. Then she wanted to study it, spurring research helped scientists find weird gene flaw that might play a role in how tumor strikes." This quote shows that the young teen survived a rare liver cancer and now wants to study it so that she could help other people.
     Another similarity that I found in the article was that, "Simon was diagnosed at age 12. Getting an operation is the only effective treatment, but her tumor was caught in enough time that it worked. There are few options if the cancer spreads, and Simon knows other patients who weren't so lucky have caught the disease early." This quote shows that Simon was diagnosed at a young age too she was diagnosed at age 12 and in the book Jeff was diagnosed at age 5.

Sonnenblick, Jordan, and Marijka Kostiw. After ever after. New York: Scholastic, 2014. Print.

"Teenager helps scientists study a rare cancer that she survived." Newsela | Teenager helps scientists study a rare cancer that she survived. N.p., 18 Mar. 2014. Web. 11 May 2017.