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1) First love
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Runaways Axi, sixteen, and Robinson, seventeen, who met on a cancer ward, leave small-town Oregon on a cross-country trip to experience the best of life before it is too late.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Despite the medical miracle that has bought her a few more years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, but when Augustus Waters suddenly appears at the Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be rewritten.
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
For fans of Jodi Picoult and Anita Shreve comes an exhilarating debut novel of one woman's courage in the face of catastrophe.
She'll do anything to save them.
But what will she do to save herself?
When Kat Jamison retreats to the Blue Ridge Mountains, she's counting on peace and solitude to help her make a difficult decision. Her breast cancer has returned, but after the death of her husband, her will to fight is dampened. Now she has a choice...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
314 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After being diagnosed with a rare eye cancer, twelve-year-old Ross discovers how music, art, and true friends can help him survive both treatment and middle school.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A memoir about Jeff Henigson's teen Starlight Children's Foundation wish after being diagnosed with brain cancer: to meet Mikhail Gorbachev and plea for nuclear disarmament and world peace.
11) Silver alert
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The story of an elderly man who, rather than give up his independence, heads off on a joyride with a new young friend"--
Author
Series
Regalo grande volume 3
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
327 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
13) Seaview Inn
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods proves home can be found where you least expect it. Hannah Matthews is undeniably tough--a single mom, a top-tier PR exec, a breast cancer survivor. She prides herself on being go-to Hannah, who can handle any crisis. But with her grandmother balking at going into a retirement home, her daughter unexpectedly pregnant and an old flame suddenly underfoot, Hannah is facing a few crises of her own. And being...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
272 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Six women gather to celebrate their friend Kate's recovery from cancer, where she strikes a bargain with them: to celebrate her new lease on life, she'll do the one thing that's always terrified her, but if she does, each of them will also do one thing that they'd find difficult.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A strange house appears on Jac's street on the five-year anniversary of her cancer diagnosis, and when she gets trapped inside she will have to confront horrors from her past to find a way out"--
16) Safe haven
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet self-effacing, Katie seems determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships: one with Alex, a widowed store owner with a kind heart and two young children; and another with her plainspoken single neighbor, Jo. Despite her reservations,...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The former vice-president of the United States chronicles the difficult final year of his son's battle with cancer, his efforts to balance his responsibilities to the country and his family, and the lessons he learned.
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Kimberly Leamy is a photography teacher in Melbourne, Australia. Twenty-eight years earlier, Sammy Went, a two-year old girl vanished from her home in Manson, Kentucky. An American accountant who contacts Kim is convinced she was that child, kidnapped just after her birthday. She cannot believe the woman who raised her, a loving social worker who died of cancer four years ago, crossed international lines to steal a toddler. On April 3rd, 1990, Jack...
19) Special delivery
Author
Series
Secrets of Wayfarers Inn volume 24
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The FBI has come to the Wayfarers Inn, suspecting it to be the source of illegal drugs being sent to a local prison. At the same time, Janice Eastman has just recieved a cancer diagnosis and her friends at the Inn are doing their best to keep her spirits up.
20) Solving for m
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
239 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Shortly after starting fifth grade, Mika learns that her mother has cancer and uses her math notebook to explore the new changes in her life"--