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Leukemia

  • Ways to live forever
    Author:
    Nicholls, Sally
    Summary:

    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.
  • The emperor of all maladies : a biography of cancer
    Author:
    Mukherjee, Siddhartha
    Summary:

    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...
  • Sadako and the thousand paper cranes
    Author:
    Coerr, Eleanor
    Summary:

    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.
  • Driving Force
    Author:
    BUNN, A. G.
    Summary:

    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...
  • Cellular
    Author:
    Schwartz, Ellen
    Summary:

    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...
  • Bluish
    Author:
    Hamilton, Virginia
    Summary:

    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. 
  • A walk to remember
    Author:
    Sparks, Nicholas
    Summary:

    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...
  • A story about cancer (with a happy ending)
    Author:
    Desjardins, India
    Summary:

    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,...
  • A different game
    Author:
    Olsen, Sylvia
    Summary:

    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.
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