Lurlene McDaniel
Author
Series
Angels in pink volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
After sixteen-year-old Raina learns that she is a perfect match for donating bone marrow to a leukemia patient in Virginia, she discovers that the young woman is the sister she never knew she had.
Author
Series
Dawn Rochelle novels volume 4
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Witnessing the death of her friend from cancer, high school sophomore Dawn Rochelle wants nothing more than to live a normal life, but fears that her own struggle with cancer will never end.
Author
Series
Dawn Rochelle novels volume 3
Pub. Date
1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Fifteen-year-old Dawn Rochelle has already survived leukemia twice. This summer she will returning to the summer camp for children with cancer where she spent the best two weeks of each of the past two summers. This year, though, she'll be a counselor, sharing her experiences to help others deal with their cancers.
Author
Pub. Date
2005, c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Feisty, thirteen-year-old Megan McCaffery is proud to be a tomboy, and she just can't relate to the southern belles in her hometown of Charleston, South Carolina. Her older sister, Audrey, is driving her crazy with constant talk about her upcoming wedding. When a popular girl at school takes an interest in Megan's best friend, John-Paul,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Fourteen-year-old Darcy's life undergoes a drastic change when her mother is diagnosed with breast cancer in 1974 and is unable to help Darcy deal with the teenage struggles of starting high school, falling in love, and worrying about the Vietnam War.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
When Leah takes a summer job near their Amish community, she is happy to be near Ethan again. Ethan is now at the age when an Amish young man is allowed a taste of non-Amish life before committing to the rules of the adult community.
10) Holly's story
Author
Series
Angels in pink volume 3
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
With the support of her two best friends, high school senior Holly tries to deal with the murder of her brother and her anger at God for allowing the crime to happen.
11) The time capsule
Author
Pub. Date
2005, c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Reminded of what life was once like by the opening of a first-grade time capsule, seventeen-year-old Alexis now faces the pressures of senior year in high school, her parents' total focus on work, and the recurrence of her twin brother's leukemia.
12) Prey
Author
Pub. Date
[2010], c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Told from their separate points of view, fifteen-year-old Ryan has a secret affair with his thirty-three-year-old history teacher at an Atlanta high school, and his best friend Honey becomes determined to uncover the reason he is increasingly distant.
13) Angel of hope
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
After her older sister Heather, enthusiastic about changing the world, returns from doing medical missionary work in Uganda, seventeen-year-old Amber feels ignored and confused about her own future and decides to go back to Africa in Heather's place.
14) A time to die
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004, c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
When an anonymous benefactor promises to grant a single wish, sixteen-year-old Kara Fischer, born with cystic fibrosis, can't help but wonder if miracles might really happen.
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Desi thinks it's totally unfair that inncocent baby Alicia was born HIV positive. Now the eight-month-old Alicia lives at Childcare because she was given away by her sick teenage mother. Desi can relate to feeling unloved. Can Desi cope with the harsh realities and still believe in love?
17) Kathleen's story
Author
Series
Angels in pink volume 1
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
With the support of her two best friends, sixteen-year-old Kathleen tries to balance her summer volunteer work at the hospital with her responsibilities caring for her mother, who has multiple sclerosis, and her attraction to a handsome boy.
18) Let him live
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Candy striper Megan Charnall tries to orchestrate a plan to make terminally-ill Donovan Jacoby's last wish come true.
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Carley Mattea never expected to meet a boy as handsome as Kyle Westin. Seventeen year old Kyle was blinded when a chemistry experiment exploded. He's in the hospital and is deeply depressed. They become friends, but Carley is worried that once Kyle's bandages come off, if he can see, he won't like her, because she has a facial deformity.