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Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Description
Having missed much of her children's lives while she built a home-furnishings empire, Olivia Grayson arranges a family vacation in the Mediterranean in the hopes of rekindling ties only to confront painful interpersonal dynamics and unexpected revelations.
Author
Series
Young wizards volume 5
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Teenage wizard Nita travels to other universes to find a cure for her mother who has brain cancer.
4) The Great Katie Kate tackles questions about cancer: The Superkid With Cancer and the Worry Wombat
Author
Series
Great Katie Kate volume 1
Publisher
Greenleaf Book Group Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When Suzy learns she might have cancer, the superhero Great Katie Kate explains what cancer is, how it is treated, and what side effects she may expect to experience during treatment.
7) Wink
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After being diagnosed with a rare eye cancer, twelve-year-old Ross discovers how music, art, and true friends can push him through treatment and survive middle school.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
On a visit to her grandmother Ola, who is dying of cancer in her house in the desert, fourteen-year-old Emmie hears many stories about the past and her family history and comes to a better understanding of relatives both dead and living.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ted Fullilove, aka Mr. Peanut, is not like other Ivy League grads. He shares an apartment with Goldberg, his beloved battery-operated fish, sleeps on a bed littered with yellow legal pads penned with what he hopes will be the next great American novel, and spends the waning malaise-filled days of the Carter administration at Yankee Stadium, waxing poetic while slinging peanuts to pay the rent. When Ted hears the news that his estranged father, Marty,...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Lucy Houston and Mickey Chandler probably shouldn't have fallen in love, let alone gotten married. They're both plagued with faulty genes-he has bipolar disorder; she, a ravaging family history of breast cancer. But when their paths cross on the night of Lucy's twenty-first birthday, sparks fly, and there's no denying their chemistry. Cautious every step of the way, they are determined to make their relationship work-and they put their commitment...
14) On Christmas Eve
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Tess is convinced that if she believes and stays aware of the magic around her, she will meet Santa Claus on Christmas Eve of 1958, when she will thank him for his gifts and ask him to use his magic to cure her best friend's father of cancer.
Author
Publisher
Islamic Foundation
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Documenting the advance of her mother's cancer in her diary, Nur relies on the support of her family and her faith in overcoming the staggering pain caused by her mother's death and endeavors to use her strength to help others.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Fifth grader Benny wants to focus on not flunking out of fifth grade, but he must also cope with his complicated home life with newly divorced parents, a mother who moves away, and a father with terminal lung cancer.
19) Finding balance
Author
Series
Brave enough volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jase Ellison doesn't remember having Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia when he was three years old. His cancer diagnosis only enters his mind at his yearly checkup at the oncology clinic and when he attends Camp Chemo in the summer. Mari Manos has never been able to hide her cancer survivorship-- she lost a leg and uses crutches. She loves Camp Chemo, and has developed a crush on fellow camper Jase. When Mari transfers to Atlanta West Prep, he doesn't want...
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