Seventeen-year old Mia Moore is one of the most popular girls at her school. She's beautiful, popular, a cheerleader, and has adoring parents. Her life is enviable.
At the beginning of the summer before her senior year in high school, Mia has her three best friends over to sunbathe and relax by her pool. One of her friends notices a bruise on her leg, and even though Mia blows off the question, she knows something is wrong because she has several bruises all over her body. Her mom has made a doctor's appointment.
Drs called. I moved your appt to today. 4 pm.
Leaving now. Be ready when I get home.
After series of tests, Mia finds out she has acute lymphoblastic leukemia. She wants to escape her diagnosis, not think about what's going to happen to her, and hide from the truth as long as possible.
Mia is superstitious. She looks for signs everywhere to help her make decisions. She wears a four-leaf clover charm necklace (from her best friend and neighbor, Gyver), she reads her horoscope daily, and she has a horseshoe that she has in her bedroom and brings with her for hospital stays.
"I just need to feel normal for a few more hours. Before my life becomes a mess of chemo and doctors and drugs." The last barrier between me and detachment fell, and the doctor's words hit with suffocating reality. "God...I have cancer."
Mia decides to keep her cancer a secret from everyone except Gyver. Her mom not only supports this decision, she thinks it's the best for Mia. But how do you keep cancer a secret when you're in high school?
Send Me a Sign tells Mia's story of not only how Mia deals with having cancer, but also with keeping it secret from everyone she cares about. Gyver is always there for her, but now her long-time crush, Ryan (one of the most good-looking, athletic, popular guys), wants to have a relationship with her. It's really hard to like the characters in this book at the beginning, but Mia's story is gripping and heart-breaking.
Rating: 8 out of 10 stars
*language, sexual reference, drinking
