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61) Garden of angels
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In in Conners, Georgia, 1974, fourteen-year-old Darcy tries to deal with her mother's battle with breast cancer, as she also faces new feelings for an outcast senior at her school and learns that the war in Vietnam is more than a school project.
62) Defiance
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
While vacationing in the country, eleven-year-old Toby, a cancer patient, learns some important lessons about living and dying from an elderly poet and her cow.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When his mother dies three weeks before his high school graduation, Danny goes to Tokyo, where his mother had been going for cancer treatments, to learn about the city his mother loved and, with the help of his friends, come to terms with her death.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2003, 2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In the basement of his grandmother's home in London where his mother is recuperating from cancer, twelve-year-old Tom discovers a path to the past where, in the year 1717, a "fairy child" and her friends desperately need his help.
Author
Publisher
SparkPress
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After she's diagnosed with breast cancer, forty-nine-year-old Tess sets forth on a mission to complete her to do list before, what she's sure is, her impending death. She needs to make peace with her estranged sister, Birdie, scatter her mother's long kept ashes, rescue her daughter, Haddie, from the grip of an eating disorder, guide her teenage son, Henry, through a bumpy adolescence, and reignite the spark in her almost thirty year marriage to her...
66) After the end
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The breathtaking, emotional new novel from Clare Mackintosh. A story about impossible choices. A story about the strength and fragility of love"--
67) A father's gift
Author
Publisher
Palmetto Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From the outside, Blake Harperʼs life looks perfect. She's young and attractive and has an enormously successful career as an emergency room nurse practitioner. She loves her work and has always placed it high on her priority list. But suddenly her life is turned upside down with a single phone call. Her father has cancer... again. Suddenly, Blake is questioning everything she has done in life. She feels the need to make a change but doesn't know...
68) Over the tracks
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
For most of Lucy's life, it's just been her and her mom, and Lucy's been okay with that. But when a serious illness strikes Lucy's mother, Lucy has to grow up faster than she expected. As the illness gets worse and money gets tighter, even a school trip?which Lucy hoped would give her a break from home?seems out of reach. Out of frustration and desperation, Lucy starts selling her mom's medical marijuana. But she's not exactly an experienced dealer....
Author
Series
Zachary Goldman mysteries volume 3
Publisher
P.D. Workman
Pub. Date
[2018].
Language
English
Description
Natural Causes Private Investigator Zachary Goldman took on the case as a favor to his ex-wife, Bridget. It should have been cut and dried. But the deeper he looks into the death of cancer patient Robin Salter, the more convinced Zachary becomes that Bridget's suspicions were correct. Bridget is determined to discover what happened to her friend... and what was thought to be death by natural causes becomes an active police investigation. No one...
70) The Cure
Author
Series
Kat Beckman volume Volume 1
Publisher
BDM, LLC
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Kat Beckman is a survivor. A harrowing IED attack in Afghanistan has left Kat with debilitating PTSD even though everything else in her life seems normal. It's not something she talks about. Never. The secrets from her time overseas have stayed there. It's better that way... or at least she thinks so. One day, visiting her hospitalized mother-in-law, a mysterious man approaches her and offers Kat a cure for the cancer that is ravaging Laura's...
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"In this novel in blank verse, twelve-year-old Cass struggles to cope with her father's recurring cancers that have dominated her whole life, with the knowledge that he is likely to die soon because the latest recurrence is worse--and with the possibility that she may have inherited the genetic disease, Li-Fraumeni Syndrome, that causes the cancers" --
72) Spring's arcana
Author
Series
Dead God's heart volume 1
Publisher
Tor, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Nat Drozdova is desperate to save a life. Doctors can do little for her cancer-ridden mother, who insists there is only one cure--and that Nat must visit a skyscraper in Manhattan to get it. Amid a snow-locked city, inside a sleek glass-walled office, Nat makes her plea and is whisked into a terrifying new world. For the skyscraper holds a hungry winter goddess who has the power to cure her mother...if Nat finds a stolen object of great power. Now...
73) Tucker's way
Author
Series
Tucker saga volume 1
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
�2014
Language
English
Description
After enduring a childhood of horrific abuse and crushing poverty, Tucker seeks refuge in her rural Tennessee home. The three grandchildren she is raising are her only connection to the outside, and her demeanor is purposefully rough. But her world is turned upside down when a new neighbor, Ella moves into the old McDaniel place next door. Ella seeks solace on the same country road after overcoming cancer. Although she is Tucker's peer agewise, she...
74) Yolk
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Struggling with emotional problems and an eating disorder, Jayne, a Korean American college student living in New York City, is estranged from her accomplished older sister June, until June gets cancer.
Jayne and June are nothing alike. Their family moved from Seoul to San Antonio and finally New York. The sisters don't want anything to do with each other... until June gets cancer. And Jayne becomes the only one who can help her. Now, flung together...
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"This lyrical debut novel is at once a passionate coming-of-age story, a meditation on illness and death, and a kaleidoscopic journey through one woman’s life—told in part by the malevolent voice of her disease."
"Lia, her husband Harry, and their beloved daughter, Iris, are a precisely balanced family of three. With Iris struggling to navigate the social tightrope of early adolescence, their tender home is a much-needed refuge. But...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Barely able to walk and rendered mute by the cancer metastasizing in his throat, Ulysses S. Grant is scratching out words, hour after hour, day after day. Desperate to complete his memoirs before his death so his family might have some financial security and he some redemption, Grant journeys back in time. He had once been the savior of the Union, the general to whom Lee surrendered at Appomattox, a twice-elected president who fought for the civil...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Ben Coffin has never felt like he fits in. A former foster kid, he keeps his head down at school to avoid bullies and spends his afternoons reading sci-fi books at the library. But all that changes when he finds a scruffy abandoned dog named Flip and befriends the librarian's daughter, Halley. For the first time, Ben starts to feel like he belongs in his own life. Then everything changes, and suddenly Ben is more alone than ever. But with a little...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An impossible decision in the chaos of D-Day. Ripples that cascade seventy-five years into the present. And two lives transformed by the tenuous resolve to reach out of the darkness toward fragments of light. Cancer stole everything from Ceelie -- her peace of mind, her self-image, perhaps even her twenty-three-year marriage to her college sweetheart, Nate. Without the support of Darlene, her quirky elderly friend, she may not have been able to endure...
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