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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
A tale of deceptive simplicity that slowly reveals an extraordinary emotional depth and resonance, this moving new novel subtly re-imagines our world and time in a haunting story of friendship and love. As a child, Kathy -- now 31 years old –- lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world. She was brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being...
Author
Language
English
Description
While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers witness the accident. A well-known Boston hand surgeon wants to perform the first hand transplant on the reporter, but the problem is there is no hand available. A married woman from Wisconsin wants to give the reporter her husband's left hand--that is, after her husband dies.
3) Blindsight
Author
Series
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Robin Cook is back-with a shocking story of medical conspiracy. Today, organ transplants are common miracles of science. But if the supply cannot meet the demand, how far will people go to find donors? Dr. Laurie Montgomery, a forensic pathologist, learns the terrifying answer when she investigates a series of fatal "overdose" of young professionals. Some crimes are beyond comprehension. But seeing is believing.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
470L
Language
English
Description
Edward is one of a large and close family that loves baseball, music, books, and each other, and when he unexpectedly dies and his parents donate his organs, his wonderful eyes go to a perfect recipient.
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
This is the story of two mothers, each a stranger to the other. The first has two children--twins, a boy and girl, who are seniors in high school. She wants their last Christmas as a family living in the same home to be perfect, but her husband is delayed returning from a business trip abroad. And then there's an accident--a fatal one involving a drunk driver. Meanwhile, the other mother has a daughter who needs a new heart, and so one woman's loss...
6) Insight
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Language
English
Formats
Description
"She's having a baby. It's a blessing that brings comfort to newly widowed Olivia Cline. Yet with no insurance, no job and precious little money, how will Olivia care for herself and her child? The answer is a handsome and brooding artist seeking an assistant. Reed Vincent has recently regained his eyesight, thanks to a donor. And through his eyes, Olivia begins to see all the possibilities before her. Before them. Until, in a flash of insight, she...
7) Pieces of me
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After a car accident leaves her brain-dead, Jessica tries to prevent her parents from donating her organs and tissues, but then follows the lives of four fellow teens who are able to survive because she did not.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Jamie Wagner is a young lawyer who is happy to be flying under the radar at a large firm doing background research for the partners. It's not that he isn't smart. He is. It's just that hard work, the whole legal world, isn't really his thing. Underachiever? Yes. Content? At least until the firm puts him on a case that turns his whole world upside down. Sheryl Harrison has served four years of a thirty-year murder sentence for killing her husband...
Author
Language
English
Description
The screech of tires brought Hannah Scott's world as she knew it to a devastating end. Even a year after she signed the papers to donate her daughter's organs, Hannah is still reeling with grief when she unexpectedly stumbles into the life of the Bell family, whose child, Maddie, survived only because hers had died. Mesmerized by this fragile connection to her own daughter and afraid to reveal who she actually is, Hannah develops a surprising friendship...
11) Pieces
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Eric deals with the loss of his older brother Duane by meeting three of the seven recipients of Duane's organs a year after his death, and pondering who they are to him, and he to them.
14) Damaged
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When it appears that attorney Kate Lange's legal advice may have led to the brutal murder of the grandchild of one of her clients, Kate investigates in order to clear herself, and uncovers a conspiracy involving tissue brokering.
16) Deadly harvest
Author
Series
Joanna Blalock novels volume 4
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A medical thriller which begins when the autopsy of a murdered man shows he recently received a liver transplant and the liver was diseased. The discovery puts Los Angeles forensic pathologist Joanna Blalock on the case.
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Through a series of letters home, fifteen-year-old Vospop "Voss" Vsklzwczdztwczky shares his experiences as he is smuggled out of Slobovia in a crate of black-market cheese puffs, tries to find a job in an American city, and foils a sinister plot.
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
One minute Chloe Peterson was a happy, busy teen, going to school, working at a vet's office, and trying out for the school musical. Then her world fell apart. It began with headaches, fever, and aching stiffness that left her weak and dizzy. When Chloe is diagnosed with Lupus she lands in the hospital fighting for her life.
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