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1) Cancer
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an Imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
About 12.5 percent of all deaths in the world are caused by cancer, making it deadlier than AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined. Readers will discover how this common, yet deadly disease is diagnosed and treated. They will also learn how different kinds of cancer affect the body differently and why some types are deadlier than others.
Author
Publisher
12-Story Library
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Curing Cancer offers a cutting-edge, comprehensive look at one of science's biggest challenges. Includes a look at the history of the topic, recent breakthroughs, key facts to consider, and questions that remain unanswered"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Formats
Description
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.
4) Unstoppable
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"If anyone understands the phrase 'tough luck, ' it's Harrison. As a foster kid in a cruel home, he knows his dream of one day playing for the NFL is a long shot. Then Harrison's luck seems to change. He is brought into a new home with kind, loving parents--his new dad is even a football coach. Harrison's big build and his incredible determination quickly make him a star running back on the junior high school team. In no time, he's practically unstoppable....
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When Johanna shows up at the beginning of summer to house-sit next door to Finn, he has no idea of the profound effect she will have on his life by the time summer vacation is over.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
"A strange house appears on Jac's street on the five-year anniversary of her cancer diagnosis, and when she gets trapped inside she will have to confront horrors from her past to find a way out"--
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Earl Grubb's Pool Supplies plays Northeast Gas & Electric in the Little League championship game, while Sam, who has cancer and is in a wheelchair, has to call the play-by-play instead of participating in the game.
8) Defiance
Author
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2009
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
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by the true story. Maddie is a normal twelve-year-old, but when a CT scan reveals she has a brain tumor, it will take all her imagination, courage, and support from her friends and family to meet this new challenge"--
Author
Series
Melanie Martin volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In her diary, ten-year-old Melanie describes how she and her family, accompanied by her best friend Cecily, travel to the Netherlands, where they have a good time despite Cecily's concern for her mother's health and Melanie's struggles with her little brother and her own attitude.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
In Wisconsin, fourth-grader Ida B spends happy hours being home-schooled and playing in her family's apple orchard, until her mother begins treatment for breast cancer and her parents must sell part of the orchard and send her to public school.
12) Love, Ish
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
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, Ish receives a diagnosis which threatens her future plans.
13) On Christmas Eve
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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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.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
When thirteen-year-old Erica "Chia" Montenegro finds out her mother has breast cancer, she makes a promise to God to raise money for breast cancer awareness and discovers that when family and friends work together, miracles can happen.
15) Solving for m
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"Shortly after starting fifth grade, Mika learns that her mother has cancer and uses her math notebook to explore the new changes in her life"--
16) A twist of fate
Author
Series
Publisher
Darby Creek
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"When fourteen-year-old April's grandma reveals she has cancer, the family decides to spend some quality time together on a ski trip. Matching ski outfits and a week together in Utah should be stress-free family time ... right?"--
17) Wish girl
Author
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Group USA
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
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.
18) Almost paradise
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
About the time that her father was diagnosed with cancer, Jade invented Zoe, an imaginary friend in the pages of her notebook that she could depend on; then one of her classmates, Gresham Gorham (called Clue), somehow brings Zoe to life, and Jade suddenly has a best friend, one she can still control by what she writes in her notebook--but soon Jade begins to wonder how much a friendship is worth if you are calling all of the shots, and whether she...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Formats
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...
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