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BOOKS AND AUTHORS
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K.A. Holt
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B.B. Alston
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Katherine Arden
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Rob Harrell
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Detailed explanation-1: -After publishing The Monster on the Hill, a graphic novel, and The Life of Zarf, an illustrated middle grade series about a troll, cartoonist Rob Harrell has turned to writing prose with Wink, the story of Ross Maloy, a boy navigating middle school and a rare form of eye cancer.
Detailed explanation-2: -When Ross is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, aged 12, his desperate attempts at school to just be ‘normal’ become impossible.
Detailed explanation-3: -Wink is based on Harrell’s own experience when he battled the same type of cancer in 2006, experiencing many of the same things as his character Ross Maloy.
Detailed explanation-4: -Illness has long been a popular theme in Y.A. fiction, but in “Wink” matters of seventh-grade social standing are treated with the same life-or-death seriousness as matters of, well, life and death. Sickness and health may be important, but so is impressing the pretty and popular skateboarder girl.