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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Children's Special Topics: Novels in Verse
Children's Special Topics: Novels in Verse for Middle Schoolers
Children's Special Topics: Novels in Verse for Middle Schoolers
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Raised in Japan, American-born tenth-grader Emma is disconcerted by a move to Massachusetts for her mother's breast cancer treatment, because half of Emma's heart remains with her friends recovering from the tsunami.
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....
5) Sharing Sam
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
High schoolers and best friends Alison and Iz both fall for Sam, the new boy in town, but when Iz is diagnosed with cancer, Alison must balance her own feelings with thoughts for her friend's happiness.
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.
9) 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
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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
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After more moves than they can count, Isa's family finally puts down roots. People in town are afraid of the abandoned orchard behind their home, but Isa and her sister Junie are happy to have acres of land to explore. But when Junie gets sick, Isa's mom falls into a depression, and medical bills force Isa's dad to work more. No one notices that Isa's clothes are falling apart and her stomach is empty. Out of frustration, Isa buries her out-grown...
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.
14) 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.
15) 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.
17) 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"--
18) 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?"--
20) 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.
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