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2) Wink
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
315 pages 23 cm.Â
Description
After being diagnosed with a rare eye cancer, twelve-year-old Ross discovers how music, art, and true friends can push him through treatment and survive middle school.
Author
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
224 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Throughout her high school years, as her mother battles cancer, Lupita takes on more responsibility for her house and seven younger siblings, while finding refuge in acting and writing poetry. Includes glossary of Spanish terms.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
A collaborative picture book by the Olympics gold medalist and the country-music Grammy winner traces the story of a young boy who helps his mother through cancer by finding just the right hat for her to wear during treatments.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began when his mother became ill--an ancient, wild creature that wants him to face truth and loss.
6) Yolk
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Struggling with emotional problems and an eating disorder, Jayne, a Korean American college student living in New York City, is estranged from her accomplished older sister June, until June gets cancer.
Author
Formats
Description
"Maddy is sixteen. She has loyal friends, a mother with whom she's unusually close, a father she's never met, devoted grandparents, and a crush on a boy named Jack. Maddy also has cancer. Deeply curious, wry, and vivacious, she's poised at the outset of adulthood, ready to untangle all the mysteries that living holds--if she survives her teens"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
"In the pages of her notebook, soon after her father is diagnosed with cancer, Jade invents an imaginary best friend she can depend on--Zoe; but when Zoe somehow magically shows up in real life, Jade wonders how genuine their friendship can possibly be ifJade's controlling Zoe through what she writes in her notebook"--
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
667 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
When poet and writer Joy Davidman began writing letters to C.S. Lewis, she was looking for spiritual answers, not love. Everything about New Yorker Joy seemed ill-matched for the Oxford. In this historical novel we meet a talented and passionate woman who changed the life of a respected and beloved author. Joy embarked on the adventure of her life and found a love that even the threat of death could not destroy.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life. Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears...
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