Defiance: Valerie Hobbs

Defiance is a book about this kid, and he has a hard time with life because of one thing: Cancer. In school, he gets bullied, picked on, weir looks, and he also gets made fun of because he has a bald head.
Mean while, he is riding his bike, and he found this mysterious old woman and her cow, and he wonders if they are okay. She says that she is fine but she needs help with her house and chores. Each night, he has to read the old woman poetry and help her with house work.
He thinks she is fine, but one day, the old woman's daughters come, and they want her to leave the house she lives in. Together they fight to stay in.. but the next day, he finally sees the stuff the old woman's kids were thinking. He doesn't know weather to keep working or to quit.