Lurlene McDaniel
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
128 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old tomboy, Megan McCaffery is just beginning to enjoy growing up when her mother is diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor. Suddenly, her life is turned upside down, her hurt and anger coming between Megan and everyone she cares about, until she realizes what her real priorities are.
2) Last dance
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Lexile measure
HL 520L
Physical Desc
143 pages ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Rachel Deering, 13-year-old aspiring ballerina from Miami, suddenly finds herself in the hospital, diagnosed with diabetes. Now she needs to learn how to manage her disease, and to cope with being different from all her friends. Will she ever dance again?
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
127 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Jordan Starling enters the eighth grade after an uneventful summer. To compete with one of the popular girls, she makes up a summer romance. The only problem is the "romance" was with Ryan, the son of her mother's best friend. Now, Ryan's parents have split up and Ryan and his mom are coming to live with the Starlings.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
200u
Lexile measure
690L
Physical Desc
156 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dawn is almost 16, she's been in remission for over a year after her bone marrow transplant. All she wants it to have a normal life, as though the cancer hadn't happened. But, she can't; the experiences she's gone through, and the friends she's lost are a part of who she is. And that person is someone who can help others.
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
125 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Deanne is not cut out to be the socialite her mother wants her to be. Instead she becomes a VolunTeen at the children's hospital where her father works, eventually working on the oncology floor, helping kids with cancer deal with their illness. But, when one of her patients dies, can she continue?
Author
Series
Pub. Date
200u
Lexile measure
660L
Physical Desc
136 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
At thirteen Dawn Rochelle is diagnosed with leukemia. She thought that thirteen is supposed to be a great age--dances, cheerleading, boys--she never thought it would also include cancer. She's facing the toughest fight of her life--a fight she has to win.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Melissa Austin has always worked hard to get what she wants. As the school year begins, her work is paying off: Her grades are up and she’s landed a coveted spot on the Brain Bowl team. She and her best friend, Jory Delaney, are determined to have the best junior year ever.
Then Melissa receives devastating news about her health. At first she refuses to accept the doctor’s diagnosis, but as her illness gets worse, she...
Then Melissa receives devastating news about her health. At first she refuses to accept the doctor’s diagnosis, but as her illness gets worse, she...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1997
Lexile measure
630L
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
When Leah takes a summer job near their Amish community, she is happy to be near Ethan again. Ethan is now at the age when an Amish young man is allowed a taste of non-Amish life before committing to the rules of the adult community.
9) Breathless
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
HL 560L
Physical Desc
165 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
A high school diving champion develops bone cancer in this story told from the points of view of the diver, his best friend, his sister, and his girlfriend.
10) Kathleen's story
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Lexile measure
660L
Physical Desc
236 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
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
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 740L
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
To escape her father's overprotectiveness, twenty-year-old Kenzie Caine spends the summer working at a horse farm rehabilitating Tennessee Walking horses, where a good deed results in a violent end to the summer and the revelation of her attractive assistant's secrets.--
Kenzie Caine is enrolled at Vanderbilt University, with the goal of becoming a veterinarian. When she lands a summer job caring for and helping to rehabilitate abused horses at the...
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
552 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
A special collection of McDaniel's trilogy is available in this special omnibus edition. Chronicling the friendship between 16-year-old Leah and Rebekah, an Amish girl from a large family, this series shows how Leah discovers that miracles can happen, and that sometimes angels appear in the most unexpected places. Leah is not happy about being stuck in the hospital for the holidays while her mother is thousands of miles away on a honeymoon with husband...
15) Prey
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
610L
Physical Desc
196 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Told from their separate points of view, fifteen-year-old Ryan has a secret affair with his thirty-three-year-old history teacher at an Atlanta high school, and his best friend Honey becomes determined to uncover the reason he is increasingly distant.
16) Raina's story
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Lexile measure
690L
Physical Desc
201 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
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
Pub. Date
1995
Lexile measure
660L
Physical Desc
151 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's been a year since Katie O'Roark, Chelsea James, and Lacey Duval spent a special summer at Jenny House. The girls have each spent the year struggling to fit into the world of the healthy. When tragedy strikes Jenny House, each of the girls knows that things can never be the same again.
18) Holly's story
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Lexile measure
660L
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
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.
20) Heart to heart
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
HL 590L
Physical Desc
viii, 214 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Relates the complicated friendship of a teenaged girl, her best friend, her best friend's boyfriend, and a young heart transplant recipient.