Terminal Illness+Ice Water+ A Shocking Secret=A Great Book!

What would you do if your friend told you that they had only six months to live? That is the question that Antsy Bonano, a wise-cracking 14-year old who's not afraid to say what he thinks, is faced with when his friend Gunnar says he is suffering from a rare disease known as Pulmonary Monoxic Systemia, and has only six months to live.

Antsy isn't quite sure what to do about this until one day, when Gunnar says he is living on borrowed time, Antsy decides to give him one month of his life. Antsy thinks it will just be something for him to give to Gunnar to show him he cares about what is going to happen. He never expects it to turn into the school wide charity project that it does.

One day, while Antsy is doing pointless things on the computer, he discovers a "Dr. Gigabyte", who is a fake online doctor. Antsy decides to look at it because he remembers that the doctor who diagnosed Gunnar is named Dr. G. In one faithful night, Antsy discovers that Gunnar has been faking his illness all along and is not going to die. There is a rally after that unfortunate discovery, and Antsy is there with his whiny Aunt Mona, his mother, father, and little sister. During the speech, his dad comes up and donates two years of his life to Gunnar. Immediatley after, he has a heart attack.

Antsy's dad barely survives the heart attack. After he does, he starts working less at his resteraunt (a place which Antsy never fails to mention how much is stresses everyone out) and appreciates the little things in life. Ansty also apprectiates these things too, realizing he almost lost his father and maybe his freind.

You might be thinking "Why does Gunnar want to die?" Is it for attention? Is it because he belives in Dr. Gigabyte? No. You see, Gunnar's dad is a gambler. An eccentric one. In fact, he gambles away his own car. And his house. Eventually, Gunnar and his sister Kjersten are forced to move to Sweden with there mother.

However serious this book seems, it is actually funny, witty book that will make you laugh at some of the things that happen. Antsy pours water on the senator's head, there is a strange boy named Raoul that is blind, but instead of using normal methods of of "seeing", he uses echolocation, just like a bat.

You don't have to, but I reccomend you read the fist book of this series, "The Schwa Was Here" by Neil Shusterman. Also, leave a comment about what would you really do if a friend told you they were suffering from a terminal disease. Would you do what Antsy does, or would you do something else? Leave a comment and let me know.