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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's been a year since Katie, Chelsea, and Lacey spent a special summer at Jenny House. This time as Big Sisters to a new group of girls who are also facing life-threatening illnesses. When tragedy strikes Jenny House, the three best friends know that things can never be the same again.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Katie O'Roark, who has received a heart transplant, is spending the summer at Jenny House to help others who face medical crises. She becomes a "Big Sister" to Amanda, an eleven-year-old with leukemia; Chelsea, a thirteen-year-old candidate for a heart transplant; and Lacey, a fifteen-year-old diabetic.
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Series
Angels in pink volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
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Description
After sixteen-year-old Raina learns that she is a perfect match for donating bone marrow to a leukemia patient in Virginia, she discovers that the young woman is the sister she never knew she had.
Author
Series
Angels in pink volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Formats
Description
With the support of her two best friends, sixteen-year-old Kathleen tries to balance her summer volunteer work at the hospital with her responsibilities caring for her mother, who has multiple sclerosis, and her attraction to a handsome boy.
Author
Series
One last wish volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her freshman year at college, Katie decides to return to work at Jenny House, a camp for sick children, even though it means she may have to face her former boyfriend, Josh Martel, whose brother's heart had saved her life.
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Series
Angels in pink volume 03
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Formats
Description
With the support of her two best friends, high school senior Holly tries to deal with the murder of her brother and her anger at God for allowing the crime to happen.
8) Last dance
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
HL 520L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rachel Deering, a 13-year-old aspiring ballerina from Miami, finds herself in the hospital, diagnosed with diabetes, and has to learn how to manage her disease, cope with being different from her friends, and wonder if she ever dance again.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eighteen-year-olds Ciana Beauchamp, Arie Winslow, and Eden McLauren of Tennessee rely on their close friendship as they face serious problems the summer before they start college, from parents' illnesses, to cancer, to two loving the same cowboy.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the time since their friend Arie died, new problems have surfaced for Ciana Beauchamp and Eden McLauren of Tennessee--Eden is heading to Australia to rekindle her romance with Garret, Ciana is being pressured to sell her family's land to a developer, and a long buried family secret is threatening to end her relationship with Jon, the man she wants to marry.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
High school senior Trisha tries to cope with her shattered dreams after her friend Christina is killed in a car accident that leaves Trisha's boyfriend Cody in a coma and Christina's boyfriend Tucker, the driver, unharmed.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
Carley, a girl whose face has been deformed by cancer surgery, meets Kyle while he is in the hospital recovering from an accident that has left him temporarily blind, and while she wants the best for her new friend, she is worried about what is going to happen to their relationship once Kyle recovers his sight.
13) Let him live
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1993.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
[1989]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
As Melissa dies of leukemia, her best friend, Jory Delany, draws closer to Melissa's family while they struggle to cope with her imminent death and to replace anger with hope and inspiration.
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...
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