Cellular

By Ellen Schwartz

Brendan has it all-captain of the basketball team, good friends, a beautiful girlfriend and a loving family -- until he is diagnosed with leukemia. Terrified and convinced that no one understands what he is going through, Brendan faces chemotherapy alone, until he meets Lark. She is also in treatment, although her condition is much worse, and yet she remains positive and hopeful. Brendan is torn between feeling sorry for himself and the love for life that Lark brings to even the simplest thing. Through Lark, he discovers the strength to go on, to fight for survival and to love.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
• Release date: Oct 1, 2010
• ISBN: 9781554692989

Ellen Schwartz

Ellen Schwartz is the author of eighteen award-winning books for children, as well as one non-fiction book for adults, a collection of profiles of women singer-songwriters. In addition to writing books, Ellen works as a corporate writer and editor and as a freelance magazine writer who has published hundreds of magazine articles. Ellen has taught creative writing classes for many years at the college and university levels. Her passions include reading, jazz dancing, baking, and hiking. After a decade of being hippie homesteaders in the Kootenay region of British Columbia, Ellen and her husband now live in Burnaby, BC.

Reviews for Cellular

[jessika.c · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

I didn’t hate it but I didn’t like it either. Brendon just found out he has leukemia and it feels like the end of the world. He’s in his final year of high school, made captain of the basketball team, found his way into the pants of the most prettiest girl in school and it’s all taken away from him with the diagnosis of cancer. But soon he’ll learn there’s more than one way to deal with cancer that doesn’t have to be anger.I get that it was a short story/novelette but the character just frustrated me. There are better Orca Soundings stories but this isn’t one of the better ones.