Chapter 1: Monster Theory and Parental Loss in A Monster Calls Sarah Minslow Chapter 2: The Wilting Branch: The Effects of Cancer on the Family Unit Abigail Bailey Chapter 3: A Matter of Perspectives: How Pediatric Patients and Parents Cope with Cancer and Death in Ways to Live Forever and Before I Die Alessia Silvestrin Chapter 4: Last Things: Sick Protagonists' Bucket Lists Jennifer Marchant Chapter 5: Grounded in Fantasy or Reality: Comparing real-life accounts of adolescent cancer with fictional themes of experience in popular YA texts. Katie Doering Chapter 6: "Oddest and Most Hopeless:" Leukemia, the YA Cancer Narrative, and Writing for Young Adults Stephen M. Zimmerly Chapter 7: Teenage Hospital Romance among the Cancerously Ill in Cellular and Too Young to Die Arka De Barman Chapter 8: EcoGothic and Bodily Decay in the Film Adaptations of A Walk to Remember (2002), Now is Good (2012), The Fault in Our Stars (2014), Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015), and Clouds (2020) Jesse Bair lt in Our Stars (2014), Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015), and Clouds (2020) Jesse Bairlt in Our Stars (2014), Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015), and Clouds (2020) Jesse Bairlt in Our Stars (2014), Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015), and Clouds (2020) Jesse Bair.