For The Love Of Teddi » (2001)

LOU BUTTINO is Professor of Communication Studies, the University of North Carolina.

Illustrates the pioneering efforts of an organization that is devoted to making the lives of children with cancer rewarding, an organization inspired by Teddi Mervis, a girl who lost her battle with cancer.

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Tells the story of 12-year-old Teddi Mervis and her fight against cancer, and of the many people touched by Teddi's life who created Camp Good Days and Special Times, a summer camp for children with cancer. This edition carries the story forward from 1990 with new b&w photos and an afterword. Buttino teaches communication studies at the University of North Carolina. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Preface

A World Comes Apart

That First Night

The First Day

The Ante Goes Up

A World Comes Apart

Wrestling with the Devil

Starting Over

Looking for Miracles

The New Terms of Hope

Hard Lessons

The Quality of Time

New Terms of Hope

Back to School

New Hope

The Second Campaign

Waiting and Letting Go

A Dream Gets Born

Good Days

Special Times

The Sound of the Second Shoe

Starting Over

"I Love You Anyway"

Decline

The Second Camp

As Autumn Approached

A New Friend

Hope Rethought

Of Death and a Dream

"They've Come for Teddi"

Waiting

A Child Dies

Come Saturday Morning

"Don't Hang onto Good-Bye"

A Dreadful Silence

To Go on Anyway

Epilogue

A Place in the World

Afterword