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    Maybe One Day
    Maybe One Day
    Maybe One Day
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    Maybe One Day

    Written by Melissa Kantor

    Narrated by Shannon McManus

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    In the tradition of The Fault in Our Stars, critically acclaimed author Melissa Kantor masterfully captures the joy of friendship, the agony of loss, and the unique experience of being a teenager in this poignant new novel about a girl grappling with her best friend's life-threatening illness.

    A person's whole life, she's lucky to have one or two real friends. Friends who are like family . . . for Zoe that someone is Olivia. So when Olivia is diagnosed with leukemia Zoe is determined to put on a brave face and be positive for her best friend.

    Even when she isn't sure what to say.

    Even when Olivia misses months of school.

    Even when Zoe starts falling for Calvin, Olivia's crush.

    The one thing that keeps Zoe moving forward is knowing that Olivia will beat this, and everything will go back to the way it was before. It has to. Because the alternative is too terrifying for her to even imagine.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateFeb 18, 2014
    ISBN9780062320216
    Author

    Melissa Kantor

    Melissa Kantor is the author of Maybe One Day; Confessions of a Not It Girl, an ALA Booklist Best Romance Novel for Youth; If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where's My Prince?, a YALSA Teens Top Ten Pick; The Breakup Bible, an ALA Best Books for Young Adults nominee; Girlfriend Material, a Junior Library Guild selection; and The Darlings Are Forever and The Darlings in Love, a Junior Library Guild selection. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her family.

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    • 2/5
      i liked the beginning, but then i just got bored
    • 5/5
      "Maybe One Day" is a beautifully written book about friendship, love, loss and grief. The bond between Olivia and Zoe is so touching and believable, with some wonderful dialogue between them, although at times Zoe is the witch she describes herself as. When the romance between Calvin and Zoe started up, I was afraid that the focus would turn and the book would become a romance, but thankfully this doesn't happen. The romance is only secondary to the friendship between the two girls as they go through hardship and tragedy. An emotional read centring on the importance of making each day precious.
    • 5/5
      With the success of "The Fault in Our Stars", I imagine we are going to see a ton of books along the same lines. This one is worth the read!
    • 4/5
      I really liked this book. I've been reading a lot of books with cancer and major sickness. I don't know if my enjoyment or ratings for cancer books is because I've lost someone to cancer not even a year ago or because they strike a cord for me on their own. When my grandfather was diagnosed with cancer and he was going through treatment I kept on finding cancer books on accident. I've been finding them a lot since then to at all if the right Times for me. It has been almost a year since he passed and this book is what I really needed. I dint feel like I can really rate this book.
    • 5/5
      OK, get your tissues out now. It’s sad. Livvie and Zoe are best friends and have been since they were young. MaybeOneDayThey started taking dance lessons together and progressed all the way up to the NYBC. That meant every day after school in New Jersey they would trek into Manhattan for several hours of ballet lessons. Until one day, their world was pulled out from under them, or so they thought. At the end of the summer before sophomore year, they were both told that they wouldn’t be continuing at NYBC…subtitle: they weren’t good enough.Livvie, as part of her community service requirements, decided to teach ballet to underprivileged children in Newark. Zoe just foundered around, trying a little of this or that, but not finding anything to replace dance.Remember I said, they thought their world was pulled out from under them? Well, now it really was. At the beginning of junior year, Livvie was diagnosed with an aggressive form of leukemia. Maybe One Day is the story of Livvie and Zoe coping with Livvie’s illness.Kantor does a great job (I imagine since I haven’t experienced it) of running through the gamut of feelings experienced by both Zoe and Livvie, their families and friends. Shock, denial, disbelief in a God who would cause/allow such a thing. Zoe’s and Livvie were inseparable, at home, in school, at dance, so of course Zoe is the conduit of information for their classmates. Do you go into all the details or just say “she’s fine”?Livvie and Zoe are remarkable characters, more like sisters than friends. Readers will feel their closeness and one happens to one, happens to the other.Kantor has written Maybe One Day in a light tone…almost summer beach read light. But the story is anything but. This book may be overshadowed by the phenomenal success of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars. But I hope it doesn’t. There’s room in YA literature for many books with cancer as the main topic…books coming from different directions.
    • 3/5
      Review courtesy of Dark Faerie TalesQuick & Dirty: A heartwarming exploration of real friendship, relationships, and living life to the fullest despite pain and expectations.Opening Sentence: “I realize this is upsetting news,” said Ms. Daniels, watching me and Olivia across her enormous wooden desk.The Review:Maybe One Day is a very emotional journey with best friends Zoe and Olivia. It is hard to imagine being in either of these girls’ situations because the situation is just so hard. Teenage and high school years are hard enough with the drama and disappointments of everyday life, and then to have a leukemia diagnosis slammed on them is pretty much unbearable. Both girls are so strong, but Kantor does throw in some human mistakes to keep her characters real and believable for the most part.A cancer story is a difficult one to pull off, and interestingly, Kantor shines the most in that aspect. She does a beautiful job of showing these very real struggles that both Olivia and Zoe face not only as teenagers, but as teenagers put into this impossible situation that no one even knows how to deal with. Suddenly nothing is certain. Olivia not only has to deal with the physical side of her cancer, she has to deal with all these emotional aspects of possibly missing out on her whole future as she had planned it. And Zoe struggles to be the best support possible to her friend, but at the same time must still go on living what life she can. Kantor shows so well the awkwardness of the social aspect of this predicament, between Olivia and her parents, between Olivia and Zoe, between Zoe and her other peers, between Zoe and Olivia’s family, between Zoe and Calvin. No one knows how to deal with this. No one knows what’s right or wrong here. No one knows how to help Olivia or how to help each other. Everyone has bouts of anger mixed with bouts of helplessness mixed with bouts of trying to pretend like this isn’t happening. The novel makes you feel for each of the characters as their lives revolve around this completely uncontrollable roller coaster and try to cope each in their own way. This is the core of the novel and what truly makes this book worthwhile in spite of some of its flaws.There are a few problematic elements to this novel. The first is the use of clichés throughout the novel, not to the point that they ruin the story, but definitely to the point that the story stays a story, and never reaches that point that the reader can really escape into it. The use of high school labels is overwhelming, with overly dramatic cheerleaders and overly handsome jocks taking the lead in the plot, but with Olivia and Zoe conveniently being ballerinas, therefore fitting in with cheerleaders and soccer players alike. Olivia and Zoe’s friendship is a little too contrived as well. The fact that they both get kicked out of their dance school on the same day as a major predicament at the beginning of the book just sets up the characters to remain in full character mode.The last major plot development that seems forced is Zoe’s sudden development of a crush on Calvin, just because Olivia happens to have a slight crush on him. There are a plethora of female characters but very few male characters, leaving few options for crushes in the novel in the first place. Once developed, the crush is believable, as we see a different side to both Calvin and Zoe, but there is just not enough substance building it up in the first place. Their relationship ends up adding a lot more than just romantic entertainment to the novel, as both Calvin and Zoe are so involved in Olivia’s life and therefore, the ups and downs of her cancer diagnosis and treatments. The dilemma Zoe feels at trying to live her life at least on some level but feeling guilty about it since Olivia is unable to do the same is just heart-wrenching and totally understandable.In fair warning, the biggest personal issue I have with the book is that I feel it is not age appropriate for the audience it is intended for. The heavy language, underage drinking, and sexual content in the novel would not pass for a PG-13 audience, however, somehow in a novel it is okay to market to the same age group. The overall plot, characters, and setting seem most applicable to a high school audience, but it is definitely dependent on adult details.Notable Scene:“Why is this happening to me, Zoe?” Olivia whispered, her voice hoarse. “It’s so unfair.”I could feel a huge sob growing in my chest, and all I wanted to do was let it out, wail as loudly as Olivia just had. I swallowed hard, pushing it down, down, down, scared that if I let it out, I’d never be able to stop.“It is unfair, Livs,” I whispered back. “I hate everything because of it.”“You hated everything before I got sick; you know you did,” she whispered.And then, out of nowhere, Olivia started laughing. It wasn’t a slow buildup, like a giggle into a belly laugh. She just burst into laughter. It was slightly hysterical laughter, but it was definitely laughter. “I have no idea why I’m laughing,” said Olivia, catching her breath. “Maybe the chemo went to my brain.” The possibility must have struck her as funny because she burst out laughing again.FTC Advisory: HarperTeen provided me with a copy of Maybe One Day. No goody bags, sponsorships, “material connections,” or bribes were exchanged for my review.
    • 4/5
      I wanted to read Maybe One Day because I am drawn to stories about sickness and cancer and always have been since I was a preteen and devoured Lurlene McDaniel. So I was thrilled when my diva at Harper Teen sent me a copy. I am pretty sure there was dancing involved when I got that envelop. Maybe One Day was above all else, a story about friendship. Zoe and Olivia has that special bond of being friends for years and continuing that relationship in high school. They have inside jokes, countless hours spent together and that sisterhood without the rivalry that is so sweet. This, of course, has an emotional punch. We see both Olivia and Zoe dealing with the illness and the fallout--nausea, hair falling out, strain on their relationship, how Zoe has the wild mood swings as she tries to come to term with the fact that her closest friend has a serious illness and that she could die. Things that teenagers shouldn't have to worry about, but in real life, sometimes come face to face with. I like that Melissa Kantor wrote layers into the story though. The girls had been dancing together for years, part of what made them so close and had so much in common, and sadly, they were talented, but not enough to continue to study at the prestigious school they were attending. The romance isn't in your face, but it is there, and I def find myself conflicted at the circumstances on how it developed but part of me was certainly pulling for it because of their chemistry as well as the things they had dealt with together. I couldn't put this one down, even though emotional, Zoe is snarky and stubborn but loyal and she cares so deeply. I got lost in her voice, and everything she was doing to continue to be Livvie's best friend. She sees and deals with things that I don't know if I could personally but she tries to be strong and she does the best she can, but it is always by Livvie's side. I loved seeing Zoe interact with the kids. That was priceless, and I loved the give and take, what they each had to offer, even though not perfect and never under the best of circumstances. But it gives the book another unique twist, and shows Zoe something to do for Livvie as well as brings back something she thought she'd never do or love again. The ending was so sad, but perfect I think for the book and the themes. I always want the HEA, but sometimes the bittersweet is the only way to go because of the odds and where the author is going. Bottom Line: Emotional tearjerker that is more than a girl with cancer, it is a story of friendship.
    • 4/5
      I picked up this book wanting an emotional read. It was as I expected but certain parts stand out to me, especially the letter.Plot: This story is about a young girl who best friend gets cancer. In the middle of all of this, instead of saving Olivia, Zoe finds herself. The thing with this plot is that is does move rather fast. One minute Olivia is at the doctor and the next, she is in the hospital getting treatment. The story never wavers far from their friendship, but the reader can see them get close, fall apart and then come together as best friends again.Friendship/Love: My only beef is the friendship. It felt like Zoe is not her own person. She relies on Olivia for everything. Every decision she makes is based on Olivia. Will Livy like this? Will she be mad? etc. Those parts got me a little miffed in being that she can never do anything without Olivia. It was like, who was Zoe? Olivia on the other hand, I got a clear picture of. She is a strong-headed gal and is pretty clear about her thoughts/emotions while Zoe held them in. The whole love interest did pave way for the Zoe to become herself without Olivia. Once Zoe started seeing the guy, she started questioning everything and suddenly did things for herself.Ending: The letter in the ending is very touching, I admit my eyes teared up because that letter really tied in the whole story. Life sucks sometimes.This is a good book. I really did expect more from the story but it did quite well overall. If you are looking for that emotional read to amp up your emotions, then read this one. Maybe One day is a great story.