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Cheerleading, mean girls, shopping . . . and leprosy? High school is about to get complicated. For fans of Before I Fall and Exit, Pursued By a Bear. Abby Furlowe has plans. Big plans. She's hot, she's popular, she's a cheerleader and she's going to break out of her small Texas town and make it big. Fame and fortune, adoration and accolades. It'll all be hers. But then she notices some spots on her skin. She writes them off as a rash, but things only get worse. She's tired all the time, her hands and feet are numb and her face starts to look like day-old pizza. By the time her seventeenth birthday rolls around, she's tried every cream and medication the doctors have thrown at her, but nothing works. When she falls doing a routine cheerleading stunt and slips into a coma, her mystery illness goes into overdrive and finally gets diagnosed: Hansen's Disease, aka leprosy.
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Ashley Little received a BFA in Creative Writing and Film Studies from The University of Victoria and is now completing her MFA at University of British Columbia Okanagan. Her first novel, PRICK: Confessions of a Tattoo Artist (Tightrope Books, 2011) was shortlisted for a ReLit award and optioned for film. The New Normal (Orca, 2013) won the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Award. Ashley's third novel, Anatomy of a Girl Gang (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2013) , won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and has been optioned for television. For more info check out ashleylittle.com.
