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This Lurlene Mcdaniel book is about Katie, a young girl who has heart failure.

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The story begins when Katie finds out her heart isn't working the way it's supposed to, so the docter tells her that she needs a heart transplant and her parents are really concerned about how long the list is because some patents die waiting for transplants. Turns out that she ends up getting the transplant before they expect. She is very concerned about the donor and the donor's family and background of that person. Well, Katie donor ends up being a football star who died on the field from aneurysm in his brain - a rupture of a major blood vessel. Josh finds out who the donor was by reading about it in a news article. The person who wrote the article is her father. He had written many different articles about Katie, and the boy had read every one to get an up date about Aaron's heart's new owner. One day he sneaks in to see her and she sees him through the glass and thinks he is J.W.C who gave her wish money and she asks him in the waiting room if he is the anonymous person who was so generous to her. He tells her he is not and as they are talking he finds out that she was Katie and she finds out that he is her donor's brother and he promises that he will come and visit her. Later on, he helps her train for the transplant games. She signed up for the seniors divetion and a lot of those women were twenty or thirty years of age and were pros. Well she not only does realy good but also wins by a long shot, and a coach asks her to run for them. And along that period of time, Josh falls in love with her. Then she gets sick and her doctor tells her that a common cold could be deathly to her, and Josh comes running in and says that Katie will be okay one way or another because he says a plant coming throught concrete-If you dont know what that means it meens that if a plant can come through the cement she can be like the plant and find away through one way or another.