There’s backstory but it is relayed in a refreshing and never boring style.Spend a minute with author, Rob Harrell, as he introduces WINK:įIVE MORE THINGS TO LIKE ABOUT: WINK by Rob Harrell: It is time well spent to be along for the ride. Ross paves the way with his thoughts and revelations. Truly magical with a dose of music thrown in. It’s few other kids who make the journey difficult including the bear-like Jimmy (who has a nice character arc) and several others whose reasoning for their hurtful actions eventually becomes clear.Ĭancer is not a fun topic to center a book around, but the story goes much further and looks at life in unexpected ways. Ross has a best friend, Abby, who helps be the support he needs as does his dad and step mom. Throughout the 41 chapters there will be points where you can’t stop reading and others where you will need to step away to take a deep breath. Or does he? Both old and new friendships are tested and the middle grade voice coming through is one of the strongest and accurate you’ll ever find in MG lit. This begins the emotional, funny, and gut wrenching look into a year Ross would prefer never happened. The kind they threaten to destroy the planet with. It looks like one of those room-sized five-ton laser things supervillains use in movies. I’m lying on a steel table, all too aware of the giant ray gun pointed in my direction. He doesn’t want to lose his hair, or wear a weird hat, or deal with the disappearing friends who don’t know what to say to “the cancer kid.” But with his recent diagnosis of a rare eye cancer, blending in is off the table.īased on Rob Harrell’s real life experience, and packed with comic panels and spot art, this incredibly personal and poignant novel is an unforgettable, heartbreaking, hilarious, and uplifting story of survival and finding the music, magic, and laughter in life’s weirdness. Now he has to deal with weird hats, a squinty eye and – hardest of all – disappearing friends, social media bullies, and the threat of losing his eyesight … or worse.īased on Rob Harrell’s real-life experiences, and packed with his cartoons and illustrations, this is a heartbreaking and hilarious story of survival, and of finding the music, magic and laughter in all of life’s weirdness.Ross Maloy just wants to be a normal seventh grader. But after he is diagnosed with a rare eye cancer in Year Seven, he suddenly becomes the ‘cancer kid’ of his school.
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