Positive by Jay Asher

The new book I'm reading is called Positive and the main characters name is Page. The book is mostly about how Page grew up and got transferred with the disease of HIV. The way she ended up getting HIV is by drinking the breast milk from her mother when she was a baby. Page and her mother had no idea she had HIV until she was about to be 3 years old and before that she would get really sick. But the way they found out was that her mother had to take a blood sample because she was becoming sick. So when the doctors took the blood test they found out that Page's mother was HIV positive. They told her that Page - her daughter- also had the chance to be HIV positive. This scared her mother because the thought of her little having HIV at such a young age could be very dangerous. So then, what the doctors decided to do was get a blood test from Page. After the blood results came back they found out Page was also HIV positive and they told her mother that Page would have to take medication in order for the virus not to effect her as much. In the text it states that "had I been born just a few years earlier, I'd be dead by now." Paige wasn't exaggerating when she said this either because it was true the year her mother found out Paige had HIV the doctors invented a treatment for it. If this treatment was not available she could've died. This book is mostly about her telling the readers her experience with HIV. She explains to us how her friends react when they find out that she has HIV, they all react so differently to her disease. Some tell others and others are very shocked but you have to read to find out how telling people changes her life.


In the book Positive by Jay Asher I feel like not only I can relate to some of her problems but other people can too and of course maybe not with the biggest one with her having HIV but with the problems that she has with friends and family. In the book it talked about how her mother and father had a bad ending and how her father is no longer part of her life. I feel like this can maybe relate to some children out there. There are many occasions where a child doesn't have both their parents. Either their not together, they passed away, or they just left them. Paige talks about it in the beginning of the story of how it made her feel so I think that by what she said some people are able to connect to it. The places where I can relate to is where she talks about telling her friends about her HIV and they kind of turned their backs on her. Im pretty sure everyone can relate to time where their "friends" or someone turned their back on them and said something personal about them to other people. Read positive to find out what else happens to Paige throughout her life.