This weekend I read a great story called Positively by Courtney Sheinmal. * I would recommend any of her books because they are all great and really interesting stories. This story Positively talks about a girl named Emerson who's mom passed away because she was diagnosed with HIV-positive and sadly died from aids. The story is just, so amazing, and really powerful.
Summary
Emerson Price cannot remember a time when life was ordinary. She was four-years-old when she and her mom where diagnosed as HIV-positive- infected with the virus that causes AIDS, and eight when her parents get divorced. Now she is 13 and her mom is dead. Emmy moves in with her father and stepmother but she feels completely alone. Even though everyone has always accepted her, no one- not her father, or step mother, or even her best friend - understands what it's like to have to take medicine every single day, to be so afraid to getting sick, and to miss her mom more than she ever though she would.
When Emmy's dad and stepmother send her to Camp Positive, a camp for HIV-positive girls, Emmy is certain she is going to hate it. But soon she realizes that she is not so alone after all- and that sometimes letting other people in can make all the difference in the world.
