The Chicken Soup Series

               I’m not much of a nonfiction reader but the Chicken Soup Series is one of my favorites. It’s about kids who get diagnosed with diseases or disabilities. It talks about their journey of accepting the fact that they have a problem and how they struggle to fix it. Some of the books are more subtle than others. In one of the books it talks about fundraisers for people who have leukemia and similar stories. In another it has a story about a twelve year old child raising three young children on the streets on his own and at the same time dealing with an illegal addiction. In the end, they usually have a happy ending but sometimes not. It’s really interesting to read about their daily lives. I would recommend this to any advanced reader because in some of the books they go into details about their experiences a lot more and it can be highly disturbing and overwhelming, so much that you might find yourself tearing up.




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