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"The story of a teenage girl who's literally allergic to the outside world. When a new family moves in next door, she begins a complicated romance that challenges everything she's ever known. The narrative unfolds via vignettes, diary entries, texts, charts, lists, illustrations, and more"--Provided by publisher.
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At one time, being born with severe combined immunodeficiency, or SCID-essentially without an immune system-led to a short life encased in a plastic bubble meant to ward off the many diseases that could eventually result in death. But, as this program shows, four-year-old Owen has proved there is hope. Two years previously, he received a bone-marrow transplant and is now entirely normal. His mother's next pregnancy was another SCID baby. Owen's new...
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It tells the unlikely love story of Maddy, a smart, curious and imaginative eighteen-year-old who due to an illness cannot leave the protection of the hermetically sealed environment within her house, and Olly, the boy next door who won't let that stop them. Maddy is desperate to experience the much more stimulating outside world, and the promise of her first romance.