Inchworm
Series: Gussie; Gussie
Publisher: Luath Press Ltd
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9781909912502
Subjects: Heart; Obstructive Diseases; Lungs; JUVENILE FICTION; Fiction; Patients; Transplantation; General; Young women; FICTION
Description: Gussie is a twelve year old girl from St. Ives in Cornwall. She is passionate about learning, wildlife, poetry, literature, and she wants to be a photographer when she grows up. But her dreams were put on hold as she struggled with a serious heart condition. Now she has got what she needed: a heart and lung transplant. But it isn't working out quite the way she thought. Firstly she has to leave her beloved Cornwall to live in London and in the months following her operation she is unable to do very much except read and adopt a stray kitten, but she could do that when she was sick. She craves a.