Book description
Maggie Davis is a young girl who lives in Chester, Nova Scotia, near
Halifax, when her beloved Uncle Nick is killed by diabetes. Maggie's
father, a doctor, is greatly saddened by his brother's death, and soon
has to deal with his own daughter's diagnosis with the dread disease.
Various remedies are tried, including starvation diet popular at the
time, but nothing works and Maggie's condition worsens. Meanwhile, in
Toronto, Banting and other doctors work night and day to perfect
insulin. Will they succeed in time to save Maggie and thousands of
others? Stephen Eaton Hume teaches creative writing at the University
of Victoria. He has published three picture books: Midnight on the Farm,
Rainbow Bay, and Red Moon Follows Truck. His children's novel A Miracle
for Maggie, available from Dundurn,was nominated for the Canadian
Library Association's Children's Book of the Year. He has also published
the biography Frederick Banting: Hero, Healer, Artist for young people.
