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24) On Christmas Eve
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English
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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.
25) Wink
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[2020]
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English
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After being diagnosed with a rare eye cancer, twelve-year-old Ross discovers how music, art, and true friends can help him survive both treatment and middle school.
27) Echo's sister
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"Eleven-year-old Echo finds the courage to help her younger sister fight cancer, and, in the process, finds the love and support of an entire community"--
28) Almost paradise
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English
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When twelve-year-old Ruby's mother goes to jail, Ruby finds her Aunt Eleanor, an ornery nun with some dark secrets, who Ruby hopes will help free her mother.
29) Counting Thyme
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2016.
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English
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"Thyme Owens moves across the country with her family so her younger brother can take part in a promising cancer drug trial, and though all she wants is for him to get better, adjusting to life in Manhattan is anything but easy"--
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English
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"When Keira first receives her breast cancer diagnosis, she never expects to end up joining a running group with three women she's only just met. Totally blind-sided, all she can think about is how she doesn't want to tell her family or step back from work. Nor does she want to be part of a group of fellow cancer patients. Cancer is not her club. And yet it's running - hot, sweaty, lycra-clad running in the company of brilliant, funny women all going...
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2022.
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English
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Lia, her husband, Harry, and their daughter, Iris, are a perfectly balanced family of three with a happy life. But when a devasting diagnosis threatens to derail their lives, the world around them begins to warp and transform, and Lia's carefully hidden secrets come rushing out.
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Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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Clean Reads for Young Adults
Hispanic Heritage Month - Young Adults
Pura Belpré Award Winner & Honor Books - Present to 1996
Staff Picks 2021-2022
Hispanic Heritage Month - Young Adults
Pura Belpré Award Winner & Honor Books - Present to 1996
Staff Picks 2021-2022
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Throughout her high school years, as her mother battles cancer, Lupita takes on more responsibility for her house and seven younger siblings, while finding refuge in acting and writing poetry. Includes glossary of Spanish terms.
33) Wish girl
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[2014]
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English
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Twelve-year-old Peter has never felt at home with his noisy family, but begins to find the strength to live and to be himself when he discovers a special valley in the Texas Hill Country and meets Annie, a girl dying of cancer who knows and accepts him from the start.
34) New beginnings
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Series
Everyday angel volume 1
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2014.
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English
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Aria's a guardian angel. To earn her wings, she'll have to help three different girls. Her first mission is Gabby Torres: Gabby's brother is sick, and Gabby's been so worried about him for so long, she's forgotten who she is. When a new school offers her a fresh start, Gabby learns it's hard to make friends while keeping half her life a secret.
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[2020]
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English
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Ceelie was only able to endure cancer, and the losses that came afterward, with the support of her elderly friend Darlene. When Darlene's prognosis turns dire, Ceelie can't refuse her seemingly impossible request: to find her long-lost father, WWII paratrooper Cal. The search leads Ceelie to Normandy, where she encounters the harrowing tale of the hero who dropped off-target into Nazi-occupied France. The novel alternates between Ceelie's search and...
37) Driving lessons
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Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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When Sarah and her husband trade in a crowded commute, cramped apartment, and high stress New York City jobs for life the slow lane in Farmwood, VA, the pressure is on to have a baby. At thirty-six Sarah knows it's time to get started, but the urgency motivating her to reach this pinnacle of self-fulfillment looms large. Meanwhile, her best friend Mona, a single and successful editor who's always wanted children, is diagnosed with cervical cancer....
38) Photos of you
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"When Ava Green turns twenty-eight, she discovers this will be her last birthday. The cancer she thought she'd beaten three years ago is back, only this time it's terminal, and she's not going to waste any of the time she has left. There's one thing she's been dreaming of since she was a little girl: her wedding. There's only one problem. She doesn't have a groom. Ava's friends and family rally around her and decide they will help her throw the wedding...
40) Ida B-- y sus planes para potenciar la diversión, evitar desastres y (posiblemente) salvar el mundo
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Pub. Date
[2005]
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Español
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"Ida B no va al colegio, vive en una granja rodeada de bosques, le gusta mucho pasearse con su perro Rufus en medio del huerto donde están los manzaneros, a cada árbol le ha puesto un nombre y se han convertido en sus amigos. Pero un día, en el huerto circula un rumor que dará un giro brusco a su vida..."--Cubierta.
In Wisconsin, fourth-grader Ida B spends happy hours being home-schooled and playing in her family's apple orchard, until her mother...
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