BOOK: The bumblebee flies anyway by Cormier

[Frederick Muller <fmuller@TELLURIAN.NET>]

Cormier, Robert._The bumblebee flies anyway_,1983
 [0-440-90871-X]
Wow, what a head-trip this book is!  Several young people with
terminal conditions are in an experimental clinic.  There they
receive experimental treatments or experiments before they die.
They are not allowed contact with the outside world but one is
extremely rich and his mother provides grants to the institution so
his twin sister can visit.  They won't let her visit her brother so she
sees one of the other guys daily.  In the meantime they steal a
model car from a junk yard next door piece by piece and
reassemble it in the attic.  This 241 page book is an extremely
powerful tale dealing with how people face death and a sideline of
the relationship between twins along with the ethics of
experimental medicine.  I read it because of some recent
discussion about it -- maybe there is a movie about it made or
being made.  Every HS library should have this book -- it is
appropriate for upper middle school kids also.

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