Sugar isn't everything

a support book, in fiction form for the young diabetic

By Roberts, Willo Davis

Publishers Summary:
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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ISBN
978-0-68931-316-5
Publisher
New York : Atheneum, 1987.


REVIEWS

School Library Journal

Reviewed on May 1, 1987

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 "diffe...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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