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Gr 8 Up—At age 17, Stokke was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. Once the initial shock of diagnosis wore off, she was drawn to blogging as a way to document how she was living with the disease. With a moving and honest voice, she takes readers along on her journey f...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

In honest, straightforward prose, Regine’s Book introduces readers to a bright, passionate eighteen-year-old and places them in her shoes as she confronts her own mortality. “My worst fear has come true,” Regine wrote on November 5, 2009. “It won’t be long before I die. All I want is to live, but I can’t.” Written from late 2008 to December 2009, Regine’s blog entries share the daily ups and downs, private victories and defeats, of cancer treatment. Two and a half months after her initial diagnosis of leukemia, Regine learns she has the option to freeze one of her ovaries (“since I’ll probably be infertile after all of this”). A month later, she gets the painfu...Log In or Sign Up to Read More