I'm taking on a Read-a-thon in September for Teenage Cancer Trust
This September, I'm taking on my own Read-a-thon challenge and raising funds to help ensure no young person faces cancer alone. I'm taking on the challenge for Teenage Cancer Trust, the only UK charity who provides specialised nursing care and support for young people with cancer. I'd be grateful for your support.Your donation, big or small, makes a difference. £25 could pay for an hour with a Youth Support Coordinator to help a young person cope with anxiety and isolation during cancer treatment.
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Re-reading ages 13 to 24
Tuesday 4th Aug I didn't find being a teenager in any way a good experience- in fact it was then that everything went horribly and irrevocably wrong. But I never had to stare down the barrel of a cancer diagnosis and it shakes me up to try and imagine what some young people must be trying to deal with while everything within and without them is going through so much tumult.For this challenge, I thought that I would reread some of the books that had a profound effect on me in some way between 13 and 24. Some I have reread in recent years, some not. I'll be interested to see how I react to them now. Angela Carter, Margaret Mahy, Robert Westall I know are just the same. But how will Ray Bradbury, Tanith Lee, Philip Roth orJohn Steinbeck go down now?
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