Ross Maloy is a seventh grader who just wants to be a normal kid. However, after being diagnosed with a rare form of cancer that may cause him to lose an eye, his life is anything but normal. Rob Harrell, a survivor of the same type of cancer, created a character who faces the difficulties of being both a middle schooler and a cancer patient with honesty, a little tragedy, and a lot of humor. The humor in the story is not making light of the idea of a potentially fatal disease. Rather it laughs at the oddball situations Ross finds himself in while facing his classmates and manages his treatment. The survivor in me found this story to be well written and factual without being grotesque or maudlin.
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