This brilliant book is about a boy called Sam. He's eleven years old and has leukaemia and believes that by the time you read this book, he'll be dead.

Sam loves collecting stories and finding out interesting facts. But when he starts trying to find out all the facts about death, he can't get anybody to answer his questions. He asks his parents, but they can't really help him. He asks his teacher, Mrs Willis, but she says she doesn't know either.

Finally, he and his friend, Felix, who is slightly older than Sam and is also ill, start to get some answers. And as Sam starts to tell us all about himself, we find out that he's had a very difficult time with his illness and that he knows that he probably will never recover.

Although Ways to Live Forever is a sad story, I loved it and is probably one of my favourite books ever. It made me cry sometimes, so I wouldn't recommend the book to younger children – some of the subjects are upsetting, so it's really for teenagers.

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