Eleven-year-old Sam McQueen, who has leukemia, writes a book during the last three months of his life, in which he tells about what he would like to accomplish, how he feels, and things that have happened to him.
Leukemia
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Auteur:Nicholls, SallySommaire: -
Auteur:Mukherjee, SiddharthaSommaire:A "biography" of cancer from its origins to the epic battle to cure, control, and conquer it. A combination of medical history, cutting-edge science, and narrative journalism that transforms the listener's understanding...
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Auteur:Coerr, EleanorSommaire:Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.
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Auteur:BUNN, A. G.Sommaire:Steve wants to run the Coast-to-Coast race at all costs, to push himself to the limit and beat the clock. Kel also wants to enter but is battling a life-threatening disease. Together they must use all their strength to face what the...
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Auteur:Schwartz, EllenSommaire:Brendan has it all-captain of the basketball team, good friends, a beautiful girlfriend and a loving family -- until he is diagnosed with leukemia. Terrified and convinced that no one understands what he is going through, Brendan faces...
- Auteur:Hamilton, VirginiaSommaire:
The kids in class call Natalie "Bluish" because her skin is tinted blue from chemotherapy. Though weak, she also wants to be independent. Dreenie is fascinated by Bluish and wants to be her friend.
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Auteur:Sparks, NicholasSommaire:Every April, Landon Carter remembers 1958, his last year at Beaufort High. He'd fallen for Jamie, the shy, almost ethereal daughter of the town's Baptist minister. Jamie, who was destined to show him the depths of the human heart, and...
- Auteur:Desjardins, IndiaSommaire:
A teenage girl heads towards the hospital waiting room where the doctors are going to tell her how much time she's got to live. As she walks, she thinks about her journey up to this point ... the terrible decor in the hospital,...
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Auteur:Olsen, SylviaSommaire:Murphy and his three friends are nervous about trying out for the soccer team at their new school, but a diagnosis of leukemia proves more challenging than anything they encounter on the field.
