Wendy Paine Miller

The Short & Sincere Life of Ellory James Wendy Paine Miller

Seventeen-year-old Ellory James has six months to live. To appease her mother, Ellory reluctantly agrees to create a bucket list. She recruits her neighbor, Pete, to help her make it appear as though she's carrying out ten life-dreams. Ellory is a bucket list faker-until she surprises herself by completing one item on her list and perhaps it's the most important one of all. What if life, however long we have left, isn't so much about the things we do as why we do them--and who we do them with? "This heartbreaking, but ultimately uplifting tale will burrow its way into your heart. . . . If you loved The Fault in Our Stars, this book is for you." -Colleen Oakley, author of Before I Go