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Author
Series
Time quintet volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
"With Meg Murray's help, the dragons her six-year-old brother saw in the vegetable garden play an important part in his struggle between life and death."
Author
Series
Red gloves Christmas volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Gideon Mercer loves to help people, but she has leukemia. When her illness goes into remission at Christmas, she is sure this miracle is a gift from God. So to celebrate, she and her father volunteer to serve meals at a mission for the homeless. She meets dirty, sullen Earl Badgett there, and although he refuses her friendship, she gives him a small gift. This one act will lead to a series of miracles that will change the rest of Gideon's...
3) The wonder
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Conceived to provide a bone marrow match for her leukemia-stricken sister, teenage Kate begins to question her moral obligations in light of countless medical procedures and decides to fight for the right to make decisions about her own body. New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she tells the emotionally riveting story of a family torn apart by conflicting...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
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...
Author
Language
English
Description
Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol under financial duress, but it became one of his most popular and enduring stories. The old miser Ebenezer Scrooge cares nothing for family, friends, love or Christmas. All he cares about is money. Then one Christmas Eve he is visited by three ghosts: Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet To Come. These encounters leave Scrooge deeply moved and forever changed. Historians believe that A Christmas
...Author
Publisher
Brandy Pie Book Company
Pub. Date
[2021].
Language
English
Description
Young Audra is unhappy when her mom leaves on holidays to work as a nurse at a childrens hospital. The children in the hospital are unhappy to be there. How do the nurses and the children, with help from a little holiday magic, turn this all around?
Author
Series
Women of Pinecraft volume 3
Publisher
Barbour Publshing
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
One morning, Tophs, Taylor Harris's round-cheeked, lively twenty-two-month-old, wakes up listless and unresponsive. At the hospital, her maternal instincts are confirmed: something is wrong with her boy, and Taylor's life will never be the same. With every question the doctors answer about Tophs's increasingly troubling symptoms, more arise, and Taylor dives into the search for a diagnosis. This is a stirring and radiantly written examination of the...
13) Cloud babies
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Returning to school after being in the hospital for a while, six-year-old Erin, whose favorite game is spotting animals in the clouds, finds things much different until she comes to see that by sharing her experience, she can find happiness again in just being herself.
14) Aa-choo!
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Megan is sick and can't go to daycare, so her mother takes her to work with her.
15) A family man
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Dane Jensen is a hard-driven, Chicago-based headhunter, working at a cut-throat job placement firm. When Dane's boss announces his retirement, he pits Dane against Lynn Vogel, Dane's equally driven, but polar opposite rival at the firm, in a battle for control of the company. As Dane gears up for the professional battle of his life, he learns his ten-year-old son, Ryan, has been diagnosed with cancer.
17) A dad of his own
Author
Series
Publisher
Steeple Hill
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"With his Dreams Come True foundation, Ethan Fox turns wishes into reality. Amazing trips. Meeting heroes. But Ethan has come to care deeply for a sick boy whose dream is ... a dad. And not just any dad: Ethan. Though little Cooper has a great chance of getting well, widowed Ethan can't chance loving--and losing--again. Yet he's spending time with the sweet boy and his lovely, strong single mother, Lexie Carlson. Could a little boy's wish for a dad...
18) Voiceless child
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The Voiceless Child. No one wanted her. She couldn't talk; she'd never been outside. I began searching for miracles, for the Voice Giver. Fourteen months old, the little bundle lay swaddled in a blanket. Not my child, but her distress tattered my heart. Meeting Heather tumbled my husband and me into a troubling maze never envisioned. Might we adopt her? Were the prophecies of profound disability true? How could we navigate through villains who stymied...
Author
Series
Macmillan classics volume 22
Language
English
Description
Miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is made to repent of his greedy ways by the timely intervention of the ghost of his dead partner, Jacob Marley, and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Future.