my independent reading

My independent reading book is called somebody up there hates you

The novel is mostly set in a cancer hospice. Where there is a 17 year old boy and his friend Sylvie who have had all the cancer treatments and they have both now been told they only have a few months to live so of course all the doctors and nurses have all these plans to keep him alive but he has his own plans for how to live the last few months of his life is “I’m not dead yet so I might as well keep it interesting I mean we are kids hospice prisoners or not”. They have come up with a new name for their disease they all it somebody up there hates you syndrome and that’s where the book gets its name.

   The book is mostly about all the things that they get up to keep their lives interesting like he gets his uncle to sneak him out for one last Halloween night and pulling pranks on the harpist that plays all the time outside the elevator. But when they are out doing something one night Sylvie gets a scare, and Sylvie’s dad didn’t like him much any way but now after that he absolutely despises him. So from then on her parents stayed with her day and night to make sure she doesn’t go to see him.