Leaning on Bonnie O?Neil?s personal experience as a caregiver, Chronic Hope delivers practical insight and solutions while avoiding the tone of a typical self-help book. Instead, it reads like a conversation with a friend, where one parent?s stories give the other parent permission to feel the full range of their emotions and encourages them to discover hope in the long journey. Through story and reflection, Bonnie gently shares a vision of navigating...

"Sixteen-year-old Agnes must escape a cult and a Prophet as she attempts to save the world from a pandemic."-- Agnes loves her home of Red Creek, its dusty roads, and its God. She cares for her younger siblings and follows the town's strict laws. When Agnes meets Danny, an Outsider boy, she begins to question what is and isn't a sin. Her younger brother, Ezekiel, will die without the insulin she barters for once a month, even though medicine is considered...

Janelle Pruitt is into activism and causes, her former best friend Alyssa is just into herself and her "group" of self-absorbed teenagers; but then Alyssa collapses, and it turns out that diabetes has ravaged her body as badly as the recent hurricane ravaged their town and now she is in urgent need of a kidney transplant--Janelle signs up for the donor program, but when it turns out that she is an excellent match for Alyssa she is faced with a terrifying...

The story of one family's experience coping with juvenile diabetes. Andie recounts her transformation from a happy, free-spirited kid to a lifelong patient who learns at age 9 to inject herself twice a day with insulin. Young adult.