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Series
How to train your dragon volume 4
Language
English
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Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III must go to great lengths to find a potato, the only thing that will cure his friend Fishlegs of the deadly disease Vorpentitis.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Motherhood is tough. But then, so is daughterhood. When we first meet Claire, she's living in Sedona, Arizona with her boyfriend Cal and ducking calls from her mother. Her mom is a world class psychic on the East Coast and Claire doesn't want her to discover the truth. Claire works in the family business and calls herself a psychic, but she doesn't really have "the gift" and hasn't for a long time. She's a fraud. Meanwhile, on the other side of the...
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English
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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
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.
26) Bob, not Bob!
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"When a young boy gets a cold, he just wants his mommy. But his stuffy nose makes it difficult for him to call out to his mom--not 'Bob, ' who happens to be the family dog"--
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"Tourists flock to the cabin of eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell, who is said to be living without food, and a journalist is sent to cover the sensation. Lib Wright, a veteran of Florence Nightingale's Crimean campaign, is hired to keep watch over the girl. As Anna's life ebbs away, Lib finds herself responsible not just for the care of a child but for that child's very survival. Haunting and magnetic, The Wonder is a searing examination of doubt,...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"The Fairway Players, an amateur theater group, are in the middle of rehearsals for their production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons when tragedy strikes the family of director Martin Hayward and his wife, Helen. Their young granddaughter is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer and faces an experimental treatment that costs a tremendous sum, so their fellow castmates rally to raise the money to give her a chance at survival. But not everybody is convinced...
29) Breathe: a novel
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Amid a starkly beautiful but uncanny landscape in New Mexico, a married couple from Cambridge, MA takes up residency at a distinguished academic institute. When the husband is stricken with a mysterious illness, misdiagnosed at first, their lives are uprooted and husband and wife each embarks upon a nightmare journey. At thirty-seven, Michaela faces the terrifying prospect of widowhood -- and the loss of Gerard, whose identity has greatly shaped...
30) So much for that
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
Formats
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
Series
Adventures of Sophie Mouse volume 20
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Little Simon paperback edition.
Physical Desc
115 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
When Sophie Mouse's brother, Winston, gets sick, she starts to envy all the attention he is getting, but when she gets sick herself, she regrets ever wishing this on herself.
33) Bear feels sick
Author
Series
Publisher
M.K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
[32] pages : color illustrations ; 27 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
The forest friends all gather to help care for Bear when he feels sick, and when they come down with the same symptoms, the newly recovered Bear returns the favor.
Author
Series
Llama Llama (Picture books) volume 5
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 volumes (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Llama Llama's mother takes good care of him when he has to stay home from school because he is sick, but when Mama Llama begins to feel sick, too, Llama Llama knows how to take care of her.
36) 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.
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Green Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xvi, 302 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"With more than 200 straightforward, nutrient-dense, and appealing recipes designed to heal your gut and to manage the illnesses that stem from it."--Page 4 of cover.
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