Tell Me Something Real

Vanessa thought that cancer was the worst thing that could happen to her family.

Vanessa Babcock and her sisters Adrienne and Marie find their lives turned upside down by their mother's cancer diagnosis.  With their father largely absent due to his demanding job it's up to the sisters to care for their mother and accompany her from their San Diego home to appointments at a clinic in Mexico that administers a controversial medication not legal in the U.S.  It is at the clinic that Vanessa meets Caleb Dunne, a teenager from Seattle battling cancer.  Vanessa and Caleb's connection deepens after he and his mother move in to the Babcock house to be closer to the clinic.  While daily life improves with the stability provided by Caleb's mother, a terrible secret regarding their mother's illness comes to light and threatens to devastate the Babcock sisters.  Author Calla Devlin adeptly portrays the emotional rollercoaster that Vanessa and her sisters experience with their mother's illness and the shocking discovey of her secret.  This book will appeal to fans of John Green, Sarah Dessen and Nicola Yoon.