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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Conners, Georgia, in 1974, fourteen-year-old Darcy tries to deal with her mother's battle with breast cancer, as she also faces new feelings for an outcast senior at her school and learns that the war in Vietnam is more than a school project.
2) Breathless
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
HL 560L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A high school diving champion develops bone cancer in this story told from the points of view of the diver, his best friend, his sister, and his girlfriend.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Leah Lewis-Hall experiences joy, grief, and hope when she takes a summer job in an Amish community in order to be near Ethan Longacre, an Amish boy she met while she was in the hospital with his sister Rebekah.
Author
Series
Dawn Rochelle novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dawn Rochelle's leukemia is in remission and she has agreed to work as a camp counselor for younger kids with cancer. Being at the camp brings back painful memories of attending this same camp wih her best friend, Sandy, who has died.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Melissa Austin has always worked hard to make things go her way, and now she's determined to have the best junior year ever. Everything appears to look promising as usual...until she receives the devastating news that she has cancer. Despite denying the doctor's diagnosis at first, Melissa quickly realizes that her illness is growing worse and so she agrees to start treatment. At the hospital, she finds unexpected friendship...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dawn is almost 16, she's been in remission for over a year after her bone marrow transplant. All she wants it to have a normal life, as though the cancer hadn't happened. But, she can't; the experiences she's gone through, and the friends she's lost are a part of who she is. And that person is someone who can help others.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Deanne is not cut out to be the socialite her mother wants her to be. Instead she becomes a VolunTeen at the children's hospital where her father works, eventually working on the oncology floor, helping kids with cancer deal with their illness. But when one of her patients dies, can she continue?
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Home-schooled for most of his education, Nathan enters the public high school as a senior where he meets a beautiful girl with a secret and together they learn about loving, living, and dying. Nathan Malone has been home schooled his whole life. He's never spent much time with kids his own age and he's never dated. His mother is now busy with his new twin sisters, so Nathan must enroll at the local high school for his senior year. On the first day,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
Leah Lewis-Hall thinks her battle with cancer is over until her step-father reveals that he has been in remission but is now ill again. Meanwhile her Amish boyfriend decides to live among the English and find his banished brother.
16) Garden of angles
Author
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Collects three novels by the author, in which teenagers find compassion, strength, and love while recovering from tragic circumstances.
In 'Saving Jessica,' helping her boyfriend, Jeremy, work through his grief over his brother's fatal accident, Jessica finds herself leaning on Jeremy for support when she is diagnosed with kidney failure. In 'Telling Christina goodbye,' a young woman must come to grips with the accident that left her boyfriend in...
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Collects three novels by the author, in which teenagers find compassion, strength, and love while recovering from tragic circumstances.
In Saving Jessica, helping her boyfriend, Jeremy, work through his grief over his brother's fatal accident, Jessica finds herself leaning on Jeremy for support when she is diagnosed with kidney failure. In Telling Christina goodbye, a young woman must come to grips with the accident that left her boyfriend in a coma...
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