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1) Zac & Mia
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"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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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.
Benny's parents are newly divorced. When his mom chooses to move away, Benny and his brother and sister are left with their chain-smoking dad, who has just been diagnosed with lung cancer. Benny is lonely, anxious, and very angry. He...
7) First love
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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.
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Told in blank verse, twelve-year-old Cass struggles to cope with her father's recurring cancers that have dominated her whole life, with the knowledge that he is likely to die soon because the latest recurrance is worse--and with the possibility that she may have inherited the genetic disease, Li Fraumeni's Syndrome, that causes the cancers.
10) Wink: a novel
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Ross Maloy has always just wanted to fit in. But when he's diagnosed with a rare eye cancer, he's suddenly the standout "cancer kid" of the seventh grade. Now he has to deal with eye goo, weird hats, a squinty "winking" eye, and the hardest thing of all: disappearing friends, bullies, and the threat of losing his eyesight...or worse. Based on Rob Harrell's real life experience, and packed with comic panels and spot art, this is a heartbreaking and...
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Told in separate voices, Jack and Hallie, eighteen-year-olds facing separate crises, discover who they are meant to be while taking a spontaneous road trip together.
On the verge for leaving for college, Jack wants to track down his estranged brother, Alex and find some closure in the wake of their father's death. Hallie has just found out some upsetting news about a friend in Oregon, and she has a small window to go see him before it is too late....
16) Yolk
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Struggling with emotional problems and an eating disorder, Jayne, a Korean American college student living in New York City, is estranged from her accomplished older sister June, until June gets cancer.
Jayne and June are nothing alike. Their family moved from Seoul to San Antonio and finally New York. The sisters don't want anything to do with each other... until June gets cancer. And Jayne becomes the only one who can help her. Now, flung together...
17) Demon derby
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Once a true daredevil, South Carolina high school junior Casey is in remission from cancer when a terrifying encounter at a Halloween party leads her to become a demon-fighting roller derby girl.
18) Hair for Mama
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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.
19) Counting Thyme
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"Thyme Owens moves across the country with her family so her younger brother can take part in a promising cancer drug trial, and though all she wants is for him to get better, adjusting to life in Manhattan is anything but easy"--
20) Solving for m
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I thought fifth grade at the middle school was going to make perfect sense. But now I'm not so sure. Besides writing poems in science and following the "no drawing" rule in art, we have to keep a journal...in math! Our teacher, Mr. Vann, says a math journal is a place to tackle challenging problems and process deep thinking. All I know is that it's a place where I can draw. When Mika's neat life starts getting messy, she realizes there are no easy...
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