{"product_id":"confessions-of-a-teenage-leper-ashley-little-9780735262614","title":"Confessions of a Teenage Leper","description":"\u003cb\u003eCheerleading, mean girls, shopping . . . and leprosy? High school is about to get complicated. For fans of \u003ci\u003eBefore I Fall \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eExit, Pursued By a Bear\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAbby Furlowe has plans. Big plans. She's hot, she's popular, she's a cheerleader and she's going to break out of her small Texas town and make it big. Fame and fortune, adoration and accolades. It'll all be hers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut then she notices some spots on her skin. She writes them off as a rash, but things only get worse. She's tired all the time, her hands and feet are numb and her face starts to look like day-old pizza. By the time her seventeenth birthday rolls around, she's tried every cream and medication the doctors have thrown at her, but nothing works. When she falls doing a routine cheerleading stunt and slips into a coma, her mystery illness goes into overdrive and finally gets diagnosed: Hansen's Disease, aka leprosy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAbby is sent to a facility to recover and deal with this new reality. Her many misdiagnoses mean that some permanent damage has been done, and all of her plans suddenly come tumbling down. If she can't even wear high heels anymore, what is the point of living? Cheerleading is out the window, and she might not even make it to prom. PROM  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut it's during this recovery that Abby has to learn to live with something even more difficult than Hansen's Disease. She's becoming aware of who she really was before and what her behavior was doing to others; now she's on the other side of the fence looking in, and she doesn't like what she sees. . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDarkly comic but ultimately touching, \u003ci\u003eConfessions of a Teenage Leper\u003c\/i\u003e is an ugly duckling tale with a surprising twist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ashley Little\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0735262616\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780735262614\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Teen Canada\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/11\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.83lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.70w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVoice of Youth Advocates\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2018 - Reviewed - More Editing Needed\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/12\/2018","brand":"Ashley Little","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44059560444159,"sku":"9780735262614","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8fc85c9f-5a1e-4b0d-b670-31febd295788.jpg?v=1685058966","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/confessions-of-a-teenage-leper-ashley-little-9780735262614","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}