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The fourth and final novel about the trials and joys of the residents of Cedar Circle. Sylvia Bryan has been feeling weak and tired, but is shocked when her internist finds a malignant lump in her breast. She and her husband can't understand why God is allowing cancer to attack at a time when their missionary work is going so well. As Sylvia undergoes a mastectomy and chemotherapy, the rest of the neighbors pull together to support her, even while...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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"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 at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten"--Jacket.
5) First love
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Runaways Axi, sixteen, and Robinson, seventeen, who met on a cancer ward, leave small-town Oregon on a cross-country trip to experience the best of life before it is too late.
6) Cancer
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Children's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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Describes how cancer is diagnosed and treated and how different kinds of cancer affect the body differently and why some types are deadlier than others.
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English
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"Alex and Becca have always been best friends. But when Becca does something nearly unforgivable at Alex's dad's funeral, Alex cuts ties with her and focuses on her grieving family. Time passes, and Alex finally decides to forgive Becca. Then she's hit with another shocker: Becca has cancer. It also turns out Becca has a bucket list, one she doesn't know she'll be able to finish now. That's where Alex comes in, along with a mysterious and guarded...
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2014
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English
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"In her groundbreaking and inspiring book, Radical Remission: Surviving Cancer Against All Odds, Dr. Kelly A. Turner, founder of the Radical Remission Project, uncovers nine factors that can lead to a spontaneous remission from cancer--even after conventional medicine has failed.While getting her Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkley, Dr. Turner, a researcher, lecturer, and counselor in integrative oncology, was shocked to discover that no...
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A family torn apart by neglect and hurt...
And brought together again by a most unlikely force
In the 1970s, escaping a home where he knew nothing but violence and hate, Jim Harding found work, and love, on the largest horse ranch in Virginia. The object of his affections, Nena St. Claire, is the daughter of the owner, a man who ruled his ranch with an iron fist and would do whatever it took to keep Nena and Jim apart.
Against the wishes of her...
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Young wizards volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Teenage wizard Nita travels to other universes to find a cure for her mother who has brain cancer.
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English
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Carrigan, Ella Rae, and Laine have been friends since kindergarten. They all still live in the small town of Bon Dieu Falls, Louisiana, and they've been through everything together, from a State Softball Championship to Carrigan's elopement at seventeen. And Laine is still trying to keep the other two out of trouble. But when cancer threatens to rip the trio apart, their world spins in a way they've never known before. How deep do the bonds of friendship...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture,
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2022.
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English
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The masterful story of a lifelong friendship between two very different women with shared histories and buried secrets, tested in the twilight of their lives, set across the arc of the 20th century. Celebrated children's book author Agnes Lee is determined to secure her legacy--to complete what she knows will be the final volume of her pseudonymously written Franklin Square novels; and even more consuming, to permanently protect the peninsula of majestic...
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'Part memoir, part advice, all inspiration'
A practical manual for those, who've been told 'You're going to die'.
What do you do, when the diagnosis is cancer, and you're told 'we'll do what we can, but most likely, you're going to die, possibly within a year'? That's the situation that Tony Dehn faced, shortly after turning 54. This book chronicles his experiences in dealing with that diagnosis, and provides insight and information for others facing...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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In Wisconsin, fourth-grader Ida B spends happy hours being home-schooled and playing in her family's apple orchard, until her mother begins treatment for breast cancer and her parents must sell part of the orchard and send her to public school.
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