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Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Formats
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
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Conceived to provide a bone marrow match for her leukemia-stricken sister, teenage Kate begins to question her moral obligations in light of countless medical procedures and decides to fight for the right to make decisions about her own body. New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she tells the emotionally riveting story of a family torn apart by conflicting...
Author
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...
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
One long-ago Christmas, Earl Gibson lost the two things most precious to him: his wife and daughter. Angry and heartbroken, he ended up living on the streets and abandoned any belief he'd once had in God.
Ten years later Big Earl meets Gideon, a seven-year-old leukemia patient who believes with all her heart that "Christmas means never having to ask God how much he loves us." Gideon is determined to reach this lonely and hurting man who hates Christmas--and...
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen and full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sara and Brian live an idyllic life with their young son and daughter. Suddenly, their baby girl falls ill, and her only hope for survival rests in her parents' ability to find a compatible bone marrow donator. Their desperate decision to conceive another child raises both ethical and moral questions and begins to erode their relationship. Their actions ultimately set off a court case that threatens to tear the family apart.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Lexile measure
1240L
Physical Desc
xiv, 571 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A "biography" of cancer from its origins to the epic battle to cure, control, and conquer it. A combination of medical history, cutting-edge science, and narrative journalism that transforms the listener's understanding of cancer and much of the world around them. The author provides a glimpse into the future of cancer treatments and offers a bold new perspective on the way doctors, scientists, philosophers, and lay people have observed and understood...
Author
Series
Vanderbeekers volume 7
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
402 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Amidst the anticipation of Mr. B and Aunt Penny's wedding, the Vanderbeekers' lives take an unexpected turn as Laney receives a dire diagnosis, leading them to the hospital where, despite their own challenges, they form a bond with a critically ill new friend in need of their support.
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Series
Publisher
Mayo Clinic Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (35 pages) : chiefly color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Provides a graphic novel story inspired by a Mayo Clinic patient living with leukemia. During a hospital visit, Amy, who used to have leukemia, falls asleep and finds herself on an adventure to help other kids face leukemia and its treatments.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
200u
Lexile measure
660L
Physical Desc
136 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
At thirteen Dawn Rochelle is diagnosed with leukemia. She thought that thirteen is supposed to be a great age--dances, cheerleading, boys--she never thought it would also include cancer. She's facing the toughest fight of her life--a fight she has to win.
12) Dying young
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A wealthy, well-educated leukemia victim hires a spirited, but poor and uneducated beauty as his caretaker.
Author
Series
Publisher
Childhood Cancer Guides
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Fifth edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 476 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Approximately 4,500 children and teens are diagnosed with leukemia in the United States and Canada each year. The illness and its treatment can have a devastating effect on family, friends, classmates, and the larger community. This newly updated edition of Childhood Leukemia contains the information and support parents need during this difficult time, including: new treatments such as immunotherapy, tailoring drugs dosages to children's genetic profiles,...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 291 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The bestselling, beloved writer of romantic comedies like You've Got Mail tells her own late-in-life love story in her "resplendent memoir," complete with a tragic second act and joyous resolution. Delia Ephron had struggled through several years of heartbreak. She'd lost her sister, Nora, and then her husband, Jerry, both to cancer. Several months after Jerry's death, she decided to make one small change in her life--she shut down his landline, which...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Beckett, a solider in Afghanistan, falls in love with Ryan's sister through her letters to him and, despite feeling guilty over his friend's death, seeks her out to fulfill his promise to watch over her.
Beckett, If youre reading this, well, you know the last-letter drill. You made it. I didnt. Get off the guilt train, because I know if there was any chance you could have saved me, you would have. I need one thing from you: get out of the army and...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Alice is ready to go out in a blaze of glory, but then she discovers she's in remission from cancer and she must deal with all of the mistakes she's made and the people she's hurt"--
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
348 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An Emmy Award-winning writer and activist describes the harrowing years she spent in early adulthood fighting leukemia and how she learned to live again while forging connections with other survivors of profound illness and suffering.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
266 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
First published in Italian in 2010 by Mondadori.
Sixteen-year-old Leo has a way with words, but he doesn't know it yet. He spends his time texting, polishing soccer maneuvers, and killing time with Niko and Silvia. Until a new teacher arrives and challenges him to give voice to his dreams. And so Leo is inspired to win over the red-haired beauty Beatrice. She doesn't know Leo exists, but he's convinced that his dream will come true. When Leo lands...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2015]
Lexile measure
HL 780L
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When her triplet sister Cara is diagnosed with leukemia, eighteen-year-old Stella puts her dreams 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?