Althea & Oliver ( 364 Pages)

This is the first book I've read from author  Cristina Moracho. She has written about a real illness called Kleine-Levin Syndrome. Althea Carter and Oliver McKinley are boyfriend/girlfriend and finishing their junior year of high school. The disease Oliver has succumbed to means that he falls into a deep sleep which might last for weeks or months. Then, with encouragement from his mother, Oliver enters a program at a hospital in NewYork City  which is studying other teens with this illness. There are no promises for "cure", yet there are adults who are collecting psychological  data, pharmacological data, and historical data. Oliver falls into a deep sleep at the hospital just before Althea arrives. The result of their "split" is interesting and makes for a wonderful read. This is another example of an author taking a real medical situation and creating a novel around it. Perhaps some of your students might be interested in doing the same thing!