Akkie is a very ordinary girl. She is in school and always plays football during breaks. Until she has to run a blood test.
Summary
It’s about Akkie and he’s in eighth grade. Akkie always participates in football and is looking forward to the school camp and the football tournament. One day Akkie’s parents come to get her. She has to go to the hospital first she has to go through a large swinging door, there is a sign on that sign that says oncology. She asks her mother what oncology is but her mother does not answer. Then she goes to a nurse and asks what oncology means, the nurse says it is a unit for cancer patients. The doctors say there’s something wrong with your blood, but they’re not sure yet. After a few tests, Akkie has to see Dr. Snor. Doctor Snor says you have cancer and that you should sleep here. Every day children from class come to visit Akkie.
One day Akkie has to go to box four. There she meets Sven. Sven is a bald little boy, he also has cancer. Akkie receives letters from her class every day and writes back every day. She writes that she is now bald and how she is doing. It took longer than the children had hoped for Akkie to return to school. One day Akkie was allowed to go home and she was allowed to go to school for half a day. She had to go to a check-up every now and then. When Akkie came back to school, everyone was wearing caps. Akkie liked that very much. A month later Akkie went with the whole class to the Theo Thijdencollege to that school Akkie wanted to go to. She thought it was a very nice school. A few days later, she was rushed to the hospital and no one was allowed to visit.
About Jacques Vriens
Jacques Vriens was born in 1946. He is married and has two children. As a child he wanted to become an actor, writer or schoolteacher. He is now married and has 2 sons. He also became a master and made up his own stories and translated them for his class. Then he decided to write a book. In 1976 his first book was published: The rotschool with that nice class. He has won many more books and many prizes.
Number of books:
- The fat master Jaap
- The Gang of the Korenwolf
- Out of the Peel
- I no longer participate
This story is true about a girl who taught Jacques Vriens. That’s why he was inspired to write this story.
Different lock
Akkie was almost dead, but a miracle happened. Everything will be fine again, she will get hair again and will attend Theo-Thijssen college. The doctors said this was really a miracle what happened because this really almost never happens. When Akkie is 20 she writes a book about it. She becomes one of the most successful writers in the Netherlands. All the money from the books goes to fight cancer.