Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon

I loved this book!  I read it in one afternoon while my husband and son visited Nana.

Madeline is 18 and has an autoimmune disease that requires a sterile environment.  She is homeschooled via Skype, has a visiting nurse, and is lucky to have a doctor for a mother.  Her father and brother were killed in a car accident when she was an infant.  Half-Japanese and half-African American, her only friends are online.  Until Olly moves in.

Olly and his family move in next door.  He seems to be a real-life Spiderman, scaling the houses with ease.  His father is clearly an alcoholic and his sister Kara is smoking in secret in the garden.  Kara and Olly attempt to befriend Madeline by bringing over a cake they admit their non-baker mother made.  Madeline's mother adamantly refuses them access to the home.  Olly and Madeline find a way to communicate: letters marked on windows, miming, and online chat.

Madeline convinces her nurse and friend Carla to decontaminate Olly and let him in.  They conspire to hide the truth about the increasing number of visits and the physical contact between them.  It all comes crashing down when Madeline sees Olly's drunk father about to hit him and runs outside, with her horrified mother chasing after her. 

Banned from the computer, Carla fired, Nurse Ratchet hired, Madeline decides the life she has is not worth living.  She convinces Olly to run away with her, even though she may die shortly after being exposed to the real world.  Madeline chooses Hawaii, as it is the last place her entire family vacationed before her brother and father were killed.

I'm going to stop the summary there.  What happens next is beautiful, heart wrenching, magical, and appalling all at the same time.

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