num_pages: 256
description: A cancer survivor must readjust to normal middle school life in this hopeful novel from the author of Star-Crossed and Truth or Dare.Norah Levy has just completed two years of treatment for leukemia and is ready to go back to the real world of middle school. The hospital social worker warns her the transition back may be tricky but Norah isnt worried. Compared with battling cancer how tricky can seventh grade be?Very. Everyone is either treating Norah like she will break at any second or acting weird about all the attention shes getting. Her best friend Harper does her best to be there for Norah but she doesnt get it reallyand is hanging out with a new group of girls leaving Norah feeling a little unsteady. Norahs other good friend Silas is avoiding her. Whats that about anyway?When Norah is placed with the eighth graders for math and science she meets Griffin a cute boy who encourages her love of drawing and Greek mythology. And Norah decides not to tell him her secretthat she was that girl who had cancer. But when something happens to make secret-keeping impossible Norah must figure out a way to share her cancer story. But how do you explain something to others that you cant explain to yourself? And then once you find the words how do you move forward with a whole new normal?
language: English
title: Halfway Normal
publisher: Aladdin Books