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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Piper Sullivan was in a strange hiking accident last month and has been in a coma ever since. Her older sister, Savannah, can't pretend to be optimistic about it--things look bad. Piper will likely never wake up, and Savannah will never get any answers about what exactly happened. But then Savannah finds a note in Piper's locker inviting Piper to a meeting of their school's wilderness club...at the very place and on the very day she fell. Which means...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
A brave teen recounts her debilitating struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder--and brings readers through every painful step as she finds her way to the other side--in this powerful and inspiring memoir. Until sophomore year of high school, fifteen-year-old Allison Britz lived a comfortable life in an idyllic town. She was a dedicated student with tons of extracurricular activities, friends, and loving parents at home. But after awakening from...
4) Icy Sparks
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
An Oprah's Book Club selectionSet in Appalachia during the late 1950s, this acclaimed first novel chronicles a young girl's heartbreaking battle with Tourette's syndrome.Ten-year-old Icy Sparks already has one strike against her: She's an orphan. Life becomes even more difficult when Icy develops strange symptoms: violent tics, inexplicable convulsions, sudden outbursts, and uncontrollable cursing that accompany her rare neurological disorder. Her...
Author
Publisher
Chicken House, Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Tamar, a girl with borderline personality disorder, lives in a psychiatric hospital for teens where she must come to terms with what happened to her friend Iris back home.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When Victoria Cruz wakes up in the psychiatric ward of a Texas hospital after her failed suicide attempt, she still has no desire to live, but as the weeks pass, and she meets Dr. Desai and three of the other patients, she begins to reflect on the reasons why she feels like a loser compared with the rest of her family, and to see a path ahead where she can make a life of her own.
7) In waves
Author
Publisher
No Brow
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
367 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
A YALSA 2020 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults Selection
"[P]rofound...a triumph—a full-throated howl to the moon to remind us why we choose to survive and thrive." —Brendan Kiely, New York Times bestselling author of Tradition
"Razor-sharp, deeply revealing, and brutally honest...emotionally raw and deeply insightful." —Booklist (starred review)
The critically acclaimed...
"[P]rofound...a triumph—a full-throated howl to the moon to remind us why we choose to survive and thrive." —Brendan Kiely, New York Times bestselling author of Tradition
"Razor-sharp, deeply revealing, and brutally honest...emotionally raw and deeply insightful." —Booklist (starred review)
The critically acclaimed...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Ricky Desmond has been through all this before. If he could just get through to his mother, he could convince her that he doesn't belong at Brookline. From the man who thinks he can fly to the woman who killed her husband, the other patients are nothing like him; all he did was lose his temper just a little bit, just the once. But when Ricky is selected by the sinister Warden Crawford for a very special program--a program that the warden claims will...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
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"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Conceived to provide a bone marrow match for her leukemia-stricken sister, teenage Kate begins to question her moral obligations in light of countless medical procedures and decides to fight for the right to make decisions about her own body. New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she tells the emotionally riveting story of a family torn apart by conflicting...
13) The last lecture
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
14) Angels walking
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
When major league baseball star Tyler Ames suffers a career-ending injury, all he can think about is putting his life back together. Just when things seem to be turning around, Tyler hits rock bottom. Across the country, Tyler's true love Sami Dawson has moved on. A series of small miracles leads Tyler to a job at a retirement home and a friendship with Virginia Hutcheson, an old woman with Alzheimer's who might have the answers he so desperately...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
326 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The Paralympic ski racer, YouTube star, and motivational speaker documents his coming of age as an amputee cancer survivor and his efforts to investigate past dates gone wrong to discover why he was still single.
16) Brush of wings
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Despite needing a heart transplant and against her doctor's advice, Mary Catherine moves to Uganda to spend the time she has left helping children. The team of angels walking is busier than ever in this poignant tale of love, sacrifice, and the power of faith--From the publisher's web site.
17) Remember
Author
Series
Redemption volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
-- A story about tragedy, healing, and the importance of remembering, from Karen Kingsbury, the #1 -- An Unthinkable TragedyThen comes the nightmare of September 11, which forever changes the lives of the Baxter family, causing them to remember what is important and leading them to make decisions that are both heartbreaking and hope-filled. -- Remember Fans will enjoy a personal note from Karen Kingsbury and Gary Smalley as well as discussion questions...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Description
Documents the story of how scientists took cells from an unsuspecting descendant of freed slaves and created a human cell line that has been kept alive indefinitely, enabling discoveries in such areas as cancer research, in vitro fertilization, and gene mapping.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
viii, 336 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
“What are you reading?” That’s the question Will Schwalbe asks his mother, Mary Anne, as they sit in the waiting room of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. In 2007, Mary Anne returned from a humanitarian trip to Pakistan and Afghanistan suffering from what her doctors believed was a rare type of hepatitis. Months later she was diagnosed with a form of advanced pancreatic cancer, which is almost always fatal, often in six months or...
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