The book was acclaimed and was short-listed for the 2007 Guardian Award and the 2008 Lancashire Children's Book of the Year, nominated for the 2008 Carnegie Medal and the 2008 Booktrust Teenage Prize, and won the 2008 Branford Boase Award.
In her first book, Before I Die, the fictional account of the last few months of a sixteen-year-old girl who has been dying of leukemia for 4 years. Here is the description from : Tessa has just months to live. She starts her list with the help of a friend and some of the items work out and some do not go the way she planned. She makes a list of things she wants to do before she dies. Tessa compiles a To Do Before I Die list. Before I Die is a YA novel about a teenager who has terminal cancer. She fights back against the endless hospital visits and tests, drugs and all their horrible side effects. Jenny Downham (born 1964) is a British novelist and an ex-actor. Plot Summary: This is an emotional YA novel about Tessa who has terminal cancer, with just months left to live. Rent Before I Die 1st edition (978-0385751834) today, or search our site for other textbooks by Jenny Downham. Jenny Downham (born 1964) is a British novelist and an ex-actor.
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