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Young wizards volume 5
Language
English
Description
Teenage wizard Nita travels to other universes to find a cure for her mother who has brain cancer.
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English
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Disability Pride Month - Young Adults
Read 'Em and Weep
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Women's History Month - Young Adults
Read 'Em and Weep
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Women's History Month - Young Adults
Description
Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life.
5) Zac & Mia
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The last person Zac expects in the room next door is a girl like Mia, angry and feisty with questionable taste in music. In the real world, he wouldn't--couldn't--be friends with her. In hospital different rules apply, and what begins as a knock on the wall leads to a note--then a friendship neither of them sees coming"--
11) Hope was here
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Pub. Date
2000.
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English
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When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner owner's political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor.
13) The honest truth
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Language
English
Description
A boy named Mark, tired of being sick with cancer, conceives a plan to climb Mount Rainier, and runs away from home with his dog, Beau--but with over two hundred miles between him and his goal, and only anger at his situation to drive him on nothing will be easy, and only his best friend, Jessie, suspects where he is heading.
14) The one thing
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2015.
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English
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After losing her sight--and the future she dreamed of--seventeen-year-old Maggie meets the one person with the ability to help her see all the possibilities life still holds.
15) Love, Ish
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English
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Twelve-year-old Mischa "Ish" Love's longtime dream has been to someday live on Mars, but when she collapses on the first day of seventh grade and an unexpected medical diagnosis threatens to rewrite her future.
17) Hair for Mama
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Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
When Marcus's mother has chemotherapy for her cancer and loses her hair, he tries to find new hair for her to make her well again.
18) Wave
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English
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Asian Pacific American Heritage - Tweens
Mental Health Awareness - Tweens
Middle East Book Award - Youth Chapter & Nonfiction
Mental Health Awareness - Tweens
Middle East Book Award - Youth Chapter & Nonfiction
Description
When her best friend's cancer returns in the summer of 1987, none of her usual pursuits--surfing, singing, or reading poetry--can keep thirteen-year-old Ava afloat.
19) On Christmas Eve
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Series
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Tess is convinced that if she believes and stays aware of the magic around her, she will meet Santa Claus on Christmas Eve of 1958, when she will thank him for his gifts and ask him to use his magic to cure her best friend's father of cancer.
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