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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When her triplet sister Cara is diagnosed with leukemia, eighteen-year-old Stella puts her deams on hold to move home and be with her family, but when she starts spending time with the lead singer of Cara's favorite band, will Stella resent him for taking her attention away from her sister--or will he help Stella find the courage to live her own life?
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
Anderson is the star pitcher on his Little League team of eleven-and-twelve-year-olds, and his team is in the running for the Little League World Series, but this summer he is finding it hard to concentrate on baseball because his sister has been diagnosed with leukemia, and as the summer progresses she seems to be getting worse.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Language
English
Description
After receiving a death threat on her personal cell phone, actress Mercedes Grant decides to escape to a remote cabin near Idaho's Snake River. While there handsome town physician Luke Parker, a fan of Mercedes, must give her a devstating and unexpected diagnosis. As Mercedes struggles to come to terms with her new future, she relies on Luke's support. But neither imagines the disease is not the only danger Mercedes is facing.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
Español
Description
Anna ha nacido con un proposito muy especifico. Nacio porque un cientifico manipulo la conexion entre el ovulo de su madre y el esperma de su padre para crear una combinacion especifica de precioso material genetico, con el proposito de salvar a su hermana que padece de leucemia mieloide. Anna es la tabla de salvacion de su hermana Kate, pero no esta dispuesta a seguir donando sus organos para salvar la vida de su hermana. Una serie de planteamientos...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"The three Babcock sisters must travel to a Mexican clinic across the border so their mother, ill with leukemia, can receive alternative treatments. The sisters' world is about to shatter under the weight of an incomprehensible betrayal. . . an illness far more insidious than cancer that poisons their home"--
10) Sadako
Author
Publisher
PaperStar
Pub. Date
1997, c1993
Language
English
Description
Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult tells the story of a girl who decides to sue her parents for the rights to her own body in this riveting story that tackles a controversial subject with grace and explores what it means to be a good person.
Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she tells the emotionally powerful story of a family torn apart by conflicting...
Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she tells the emotionally powerful story of a family torn apart by conflicting...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
A romance featuring a troublesome teenager in South Carolina who is changed for the better by the love of a girl. She is the angelic daughter of a local minister and the boy joins her in doing good deeds. But she has a secret which will break his heart.
13) Tear Me Apart
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Competitive skier Mindy Wright is a superstar in the making until a spectacular downhill crash threatens not just her racing career but her life. During surgery, doctors discover she's suffering from a severe form of leukemia, and a stem cell transplant is her only hope. But when her parents are tested, a frightening truth emerges. Mindy is not their daughter. The race to save Mindy's life means unraveling years of lies. Was she accidentally switched...
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: A teenage girl heads towards the hospital waiting room where the doctors are going to tell her how much time she's got to live. As she walks, she thinks about her journey up to this point . . . the terrible decor in the hospital, wearing a headscarf, the horrible treatments, but also being with her friends, family, and her new boyfriend Victor. This is a story about cancer with a happy ending. It's about life, love, and especially,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Amicus Learning
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Meet Jocelyn! She likes soccer and dinosaurs. She is also a leukemia survivor. Jocelyn is real and so are her experiences. Learn about her life in this illustrated narrative nonfiction picture book for elementary students"--
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Livia Stowe travels from England to Princeton, New Jersey, to visit her brother who is studying there and to celebrate her recovery from a year-long struggle with leukemia, and while she is there she writes a blog about her experiences, which include falling in love.
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