READER'S ROCK LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE VOL 2 ISSUE 4 NOVEMBER 2014 Vol. 1 Issue 7 January 2014 | Page 44

she was “the girl that
had leukemia.”
In wasn't until her
freshman year of
college in 2002, almost
six years later, that
Lisa was ready to
accept her illness as an
important part of her
past and to deal with
the bitterness and
anger head-on. The
process involved a lot of
journaling and some
counseling with a friend.
Those journaled thoughts
compose much of this book.
After receiving healing, she
felt comfortable talking
about being a cancer
survivor and answering
people's questions about
what she had been through.
Lisa also felt it was time to
do as that man had
suggested years before:
write a book so that others
can read about it.

for ages 12+ and has three

stories and to encourage

purposes. The first is to give

them to share their journey

a raw, firsthand perspective

with others.

from a preteen dealing with
cancer. Lisa's hope that

Whether stories of

family members and friends

greatness, of failur