Sugar Was My Best Food

The author, a twelve-year-old who has diabetes, shares his experiences as he learned how to manage his diabetes so that he could be a "normal" kid again.

Adair Gregory, the author of Sugar Was My Best Food, is a 12 year old boy with diabetes. He wrote this book with his mother, Kyle Carney Gregory, who is a therapist, and with Carol Antoinette Peacock, a family friend who is a psychologist, because he wasn't able to find any books that accurately describe what it's like to be a kid with an "awful" disease like diabetes. As Adair puts it early-on in the story, "I felt like my life was over." He writes about how he and his family, with the help of Joslin and the Elliott P. Joslin Camp for Boys in Charlton, Massachusetts, learned to manage his diabetes so that he could be a "normal" kid again, enjoying sleepovers with his friends, competing in sports and even, occasionally, eating candy. For kids who have recently been diagnosed with diabetes and who think they are really alone, this book will make them feel better.

ISBN:  080757646-8   Copyright 2008

Item#: JDC 460

Price: $13.95