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SnowyShiloh

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Last time I couldn't remember the title of a book, someone here on the forum knew which one I was talking about :) Well, I have the same dilemma again. The book I'm trying to find is a children's novel, I read it around 1995 but I suspect it was written well before then. It was about three girls. Twin sisters, who come from a somewhat wealthy family, and their friend, who comes from a poorer family with lots of siblings. I can't remember the names of any of the girls except for Nettie, who suffers from a brain aneurysm when the girls are playing together and then spends months in the hospital recovering. Most of the story is about the time when she was recovering and how her sister and friend cope with it. Near the end of the book, Nettie has finally recovered enough to come home but her friend finds that her personality has changed because of her brain injury.

Does anyone know which book I'm talking about? I did a google search and the only result I got was where someone else was trying to figure out the title of the same book!
 
try Bringing Nettie Back by Nancy Hope Johnson - have just had a look at this on the American Amazon site and it seems to match your description:)
 
Hooray you found it, Donna! Good job! I think maybe my searches weren't working because I was searching for "aneurysm" not "cerebral hemorrhage". Ali, it was a good book, and more serious than a lot of kids books. I liked it because I could relate to the main character who was a little socially awkward, and because my best friend went through leukemia and chemo several times as we were growing up and every time the chemo changed her personality some.
 

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