A fun read for a summer afternoon, but child me would not have liked the story, and cynical me says that Julie must have had better luck with her disability than just about anyone else. ( )

Julie, an eleven-year-old, shares in letters to her elderly pen pal how her mischievous younger brother gets her in trouble. She describes in her letters how her painful juvenile rheumatoid arthritis makes it hard to compete on a fund-raising race because she has use crutches.

Told in a series of letters to a much older and wiser pen-pal, this story is compassionate and entertaining. The dummy- out- the- window scene (which kids will appreciate but parents will probably not) is priceless!
When 11 year old Julie, who is constantly getting into trouble for going along with her younger brother's "good" ideas, is diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA), she thinks her life is over. ( )

This book is about a girl who has an assignment write to an elser person as a pen pal. Then a problem occurs in her life and her pen pal helps her through it. If you want to find out what the problem is and how she get help you should really read this book. ( )