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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
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Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten. Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars brilliantly explores the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being...
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Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely.
"A Hazel y a Gus les gustaria tener vidas mas corrientes. Algunos dirian que no han nacido con estrella, que su mundo es injusto. Hazel y Gus son...
3) Zac & Mia
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"The last person Zac expects in the room next door is a girl like Mia, angry and feisty with questionable taste in music. In the real world, he wouldn't-- couldn't-- be friends with her. In hospital different rules apply, and what begins as a knock on the wall leads to a note-- then a friendship neither of them sees coming"--
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Looking back on her life, Olivia Grayson wishes she had spent as much time with her family as she had building a successful business life. Now she hoped to correct that as she plans to do whatever it takes to help her children struggle through mid-life crises. Before all is said and done, they'll all learn the importance of family and the ties that bind.
5) Ashley Bell
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"At twenty-two, Bibi Blair's doctors tell her that she's dying. Two days later, she's impossibly cured. Fierce, funny, dauntless, she becomes obsessed with the idea that she was spared because she is meant to save someone else. Someone named Ashley Bell. This proves to be a dangerous idea. Searching for Ashley Bell, ricocheting through a Southern California landscape that proves strange and malevolent in the extreme, Bibi is plunged into a world of...
6) Benediction
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"Set in the High Plains of Colorado, Benediction is a story about the grace that lies within us all"--Back cover.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
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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.
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Series
Young wizards volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
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Teenage wizard Nita travels to other universes to find a cure for her mother who has brain cancer.
10) Hope was here
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
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.
11) First Love
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Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
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Axi Moore is a "good girl": she studies hard, stays out of the spotlight, and doesn't tell anyone that what she really wants is to run away from it all. The only person she can confide in is her best friend, Robinson--who she also happens to be madly in love. When Axi impulsively invites Robinson to come with her on an unplanned cross-country road trip, she breaks the rules for the first time in her life. But the adventure quickly turns from carefree...
12) Seaview Inn
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Series
Seaview Key volume 1
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New York PR exec Hannah Mathews is in remission from the same disease that claimed her mother's life months before: breast cancer. She heads south in an attempt to persuade her 85-year-old grandma, Jenny, to sell the Seaview Inn, the Florida Keys resort owned by her family for decades, and move into a retirement home.
13) Plank's law
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Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"In this novel for teens, Trevor, who has Huntington's disease, connects with an old man who helps him live his life more fully."--
16) Hair for Mama
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Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Marcus's mother has chemotherapy for her cancer and loses her hair, he tries to find new hair for her to make her well again.
18) A monster calls
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
Thirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began when his mother became ill--an ancient, wild creature that wants him to face truth and loss.
19) Love Story
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Pub. Date
1977, c1970
Description
Tragedy strikes the lives of a young married couple from vastly different backgrounds.
20) No time to cry
Author
Series
Dawn Rochelle novels volume 4
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Witnessing the death of her friend from cancer, high school sophomore Dawn Rochelle wants nothing more than to live a normal life, but fears that her own struggle with cancer will never end.
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