Twelve-year-old Katy always planned to do a great many wonderful things but in the end did something she never planned at all.
Sick
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Author:Coolidge, SusanSummary: -
Author:Hofmann, JenniferSummary:On the day the Berlin Wall falls, Stasi officer Bernd Zeiger's betrayal of his onetime friend has come back to haunt Zeiger. Was Lara the naïf she presented herself to be, or did she know more about him than she admitted? As the...
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Author:Tolstoy, Leo.Summary:Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a...
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Discharged from hospital, three physically disabled young people decide to live together, and find in forced interdependence the unexpected possibilities of love.
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Pour avoir une chance que son voeu d’anniversaire se réalise, Sofia décide de rencontrer Tullio, le marchand ambulant, chaque semaine lors de son passage. Elle ne pourra rien lui acheter, mais qu’importe. Au fil du temps, Tullio lui...
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Author:Grosso, AlissaSummary:Everyone in Shallow Pond knows the Bunting Sisters. Nobody knows their Secrets. Annie is the oldest. The sickly one who gave up on her own life so she could raise her sisters after their parents died. Gracie is the wild child. She wants...
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Author:Brooks, MarthaSummary:Finalist for the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People and the IODE Violet Downey Book Award, and an American Library Association Notable Children's Book and a Kirkus Reviews Best Book. It's 1941, and Canada is...
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Author:McKissack, PatSummary:Home alone with a stomachache while the family works in the fields, a young girl faces up to the horrifying Boo Hag that her brother warned her about.
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Author:Rylant, CynthiaSummary:When Mr. Putter catches a cold, his friend Mrs. Teaberry sends over some special treats to help him feel better.
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Author:Appelt, KathiSummary:Mogie is a real-life Labradoodle with a special talent: he always knows just what a sick kid needs! Get to know this passionate pup with this story by a Newbery Honoree. Give that dog a puddle and he'd splash. Give him a whistle and he'...
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Author:Christopher, LucySummary:While her father is in the hospital, thirteen-year-old Isla befriends Harry, the first boy to understand her love of the outdoors, and as Harry's health fails, Isla tries to help both him and the lone swan they see, struggling to fly,...
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Author:Munder, ChrissySummary:Angry and frustrated with his chronic illness, Vincent Poulsen moves into an old lighthouse to live out the few days he has left. After a dangerous collapse, he meets the ghostly Captain Cason, who shares stories of his distant past. In...
