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1) Madeline
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The smallest and bravest one is Madeline, whose adventurous spirit and outrageous antics have delighted boys and girls for over seventy years. Now even the youngest readers can enjoy this timeless favorite in a sturdy board book format"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
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Description
Shep Knacker, having saved for years to retire to a Tanzanian island where he could live on his nest egg for the rest of his life, is stunned when his wife Glynis announces she has a rare form of cancer and needs his insurance, and while the mounting bills cut deeply into his savings, he is buoyed by rants against the health care system by his friend Jackson who is caring for a sick child.
Author
Publisher
Publishers Group UK [distributor]
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Emma's grandmother, who takes care of her after school and takes her out for bagels on Wednesdays, gets sick and has to go to the hospital, Emma is afraid that she will die--but she is also afraid to talk about her fear.
Author
Language
English
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Description
To Christina Olson, the entire world was her family's remote farm in the small coastal town of Cushing, Maine. Born in the home her family had lived in for generations, and increasingly incapacitated by illness, Christina seemed destined for a small life. Instead, for more than twenty years, she was host and inspiration for the artist Andrew Wyeth, and became the subject of one of the best known American paintings of the twentieth century.
Author
Series
Circus Mirandus volume 1
Language
English
Description
""When he realizes that his grandfather's stories of an enchanted circus are true, Micah Tuttle sets out to find the mysterious Circus Mirandus--and to use its magic to save his grandfather's life""--
Author
Series
Gone novels volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
A deadly, flu-like epidemic and a plague of flesh-eating creatures threaten the lives of the children at Perdido Beach while Sam, Astrid, Caine, and Diana each struggle with doubts and uncertainties.
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Khosi's mother wants her to get an education to break out of their South African shantytown, although she herself is wasting away from an untreated illness, while Khosi's grandmother, Gogo, seeks help from a traditional Zulu healer.
Author
Series
Elvis and the underdogs volume 2
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
All his life Benji, now ten, has been sickly and he has long been targeted by the school bully, but after a seizure Benji gets a therapy dog that is not only big enough to protect him, it can also talk.
Author
Series
Iris and Walter volume 5
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
44 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Iris is devastated when she has to miss being in her first school play because she is sick.
11) Maybe one day
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
386 p.
Language
English
Description
"Zoe thought that being cut from her ballet program was the worst thing that could happen, but when her best friend Olivia is diagnosed with a life-threatening disease, Zoe quickly learns that not being able to dance is the least of her problems"--
12) Finding the worm
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1970 Queens, New York, Julian Twerski, now in seventh grade, struggles to write an essay as punishment for an act he did not commit, worries about Beverly, the girl he likes, prepares for his bar mitzvah, and tries to cope with the serious illness of one of his closest friends, Quentin.
13) The germ busters
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books For Children
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
When Yoko and her classmates become sick, Mrs. Jenkins comes up with a great idea to identify who might be responsible for spreading germs.
14) Sick day
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Boy is sick, his friends Dog and Bird try to help him feel better.
15) Nest
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Description
On Cape Cod in 1972, eleven-year-old Naomi, known as Chirp for her love of birds, gets help from neighbor Joey as she struggles to cope with her mother's multiple sclerosis and its effect on her father and sister.
Author
Series
Violet Mackerel books volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st US ed.
Physical Desc
114 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
With her knack for seeing the positive, six-year-old Violet anticipates extraordinary results after getting her tonsils removed, such as making a special new friend and turning her everyday voice into an opera voice.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
Clover and Danny are the kind of best friends who make each other better: Clover makes lists, and Danny makes fun. Clover is thoughtful and quiet and loves science. Danny is chatty and funny and loves art. They're so important to each other that Clover believes they're symbiotic: her favorite science word, which describes two beings who can't function without the other. But then Danny comes down with a mysterious illness that won't go away, and the...
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