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|pages=192
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|date=February 2010
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We first met Nicole Dryburgh in her book [[The Way I See It by Nicole Dryburgh|The Way I See It]], which she wrote at eighteen, and which detailed her battles with cancer and the loss of her sight. We loved the warts-and-all picture of her life that she gave us then, and so we were really pleased to see that she's written a second book.
Much of the book is about illness, of course, and much of the rest is about fundraising for medical charities. But the book isn't actually focused on these things at all - it's a young girl's chatty diary, a blog in print. It's a gossip, a natter, some shared advice - the kind of thing girls do up and down the country, whether they're ill or not. It's aimed at Nicole's peer group, but it's accessible and easy to read, so girls at late primary age would enjoy it, but it's also so open and enjoyable that their mothers will love it too.
[[Castlecliff by Elizabeth Pulford]] is fiction, but features a young girl who has cancer, and who shows Nicole's wonderful strength of character. [[The Year We Disappeared: A Father-Daughter Memoir by Cylin Busby and John Busby|The Year We Disappeared]] is Cylin Busby's memoir, written for children, about the time following her father's shooting. It sounds off topic, but I think it has the same taboo-busting basis as Nicole's book.
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