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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
The gripping story of a woman dying from cancer. The narrator is Ann Stanley, an unhappily married nurse. All the more reason for her to admire Ruth Thomas who leaves her husband, even though it means leaving her son, too. A bond develops between the two and when Ruth is struck with cancer Ann helps her die, the process described in minute detail.
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Claire is unable to face her fears about a recurrence of her leukemia, her eating disorder, her need to fit in with the popular crowd on Hackett Island, and her mother's alcoholism until the enigmatic Lani Garver helps her get control of her life at the risk of his own.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having spent several years in and out of hospitals for a life-threatening illness, pragmatic sixteen-year-old Cam is relocated by her miracle-seeking mother to a town in Maine known for its mystical healing qualities.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In Washington State, a widowed doctor suffering from cancer takes a hunting trip, the real purpose of which is to commit suicide, which he will masquerade as an accident. But Dr. Ben Givens' resolve is tested by several events which reaffirm the joy of living--he cheats death by fighting off wolves and helps a girl give birth.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
The youngest doctor in America, an Indian-American teen makes her rounds -- and falls head over heels -- in the contemporary romantic comedy Symptoms of a Heartbreak. Fresh from med school, sixteen-year-old medical prodigy Saira arrives for her first day at her new job: treating children with cancer. She's always had to balance family and friendships with her celebrity as the Girl Genius -- but she's never had to prove herself to skeptical adult co-workers...
8) Reunion
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
This touching story follows the lives of the Baxter family as Erin and Sam attempt to adopt a child. As the family looks forward to a heartwarming reunion, they find out that Mr. and Mrs. Baxter have a secret that could change their lives forever.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
Español
Formats
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.
A Hazel y a Gus les gustaría tener vidas más corrientes. Algunos dirían que no han nacido con estrella, que su mundo es injusto. Hazel y Gus son solo adolescentes, pero si algo les ha enseñado el cáncer que ambos padecen es que...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
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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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Victoria and her dad have shared a love of the undead since the first vampire revealed his existence on live TV. Public fear soon drove the vampires back into hiding, yet Victoria and her father still dream about finding a vampire together. But when her dad is diagnosed with terminal cancer, it's clear that's not going to happen. Instead, Victoria vows to find a vampire herself-so that she can become one and then save her father. Armed with research,...
12) Flint
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
"He left the West at the age of seventeen, leaving behind a rootless past and a bloody trail of violence. In the East, he became one of the wealthiest financiers in America--and one of the most feared and hated. Now, suffering from incurable cancer, he has come back to New Mexico to die alone. But when an all-out range war erupts, Flint chooses to help Nancy Kerrigan, a local rancher. A cold-eyed speculator is setting up the land swindle of a lifetime,...
13) First love
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Runaways Axi, sixteen, and Robinson, seventeen, who met on a cancer ward, leave small-town Oregon on a cross-country trip to experience the best of life before it is too late.
14) Safe haven
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
"When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet self-effacing, Katie seems determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships: one with Alex, a widowed store owner with a kind heart and two young children; and another with her plainspoken single neighbor, Jo. Despite her reservations,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
Sam and Jules-they've been best friends for forever. Now, in the summer before senior year, Sam and Jules are certian they are ready for whatever the future brings. From college to professional dance careers, they'll share the triumphs and the tears together. But nothing could have prepared them for Jules's sudden illness and the discovery of its cause-cancer. Now both Jules and Sam must learn to accept the unacceptable- that Jules's cancer may not...
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Description
Claire and her mother are running out of time, but they don't know it. They rarely find themselves in the same room at the same time, and it often seems that the only thing they can count on are notes to each other on the refrigerator door. When home is threatened by a crisis, their relationship experiences a momentous change. Forced to reevaluate the delicate balance between their personal lives and their bond as mother and daughter, Claire and...
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