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ZJ's friends Ollie, Darry and Daniel help him cope when his father, a beloved professional football player, suffers severe headaches and memory loss that spell the end of his career.

After being diagnosed with a rare eye cancer, twelve-year-old Ross discovers how music, art, and true friends can help him survive both treatment and middle school.

"[The author] unlocks the . . . mysteries of the human brain by examining nine . . . cases [of rare brain disorders]"--Dust jacket.

The medical director of the Complex Adolescent Problem Program at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, answers questions from teens with chronic illnesses or disabilities about family relationships, medical issues, dating, school and work, sexuality, recreation, alcohol, medications, and other topics.

Investigates what the author calls a growing crisis in marine and ocean ecosystems, namely being the outbreak of infectious diseases among species that could potentially cause mass die-offs from the ocean floor up to the surface as well as in lives of species on land. Discusses how sewage dumping, drifting plastic, global warming, and unregulated aquaculture are contributing to these deadly marine infections.

While hiking on the Continental Divide of Costa Rica, a young boy with a heart condition falls into a magical otherworld full of fantastical creatures.

Nat and Boyd have plans to go to Camp Willomet for a week, but, four days before camp, Fink gets sick. Nat's hoping Fink will get well in time, or he'll have to face Camp Willomet alone.

"David Scheinman is the popular president of his senior class, battling cystic fibrosis. Jamie Turner is a quiet sophomore, struggling with depression. The pair soon realizes that they're able to be more themselves with each other than they can be with anyone else, and their unlikely friendship starts to turn into something so much more. But neither Jamie nor David can bring themselves to reveal the secrets that weigh most heavily on their hearts--and their time for honesty may be running out"--Provided by publisher.

"Being a woman in the health care system is inherently hazardous to your health. Women often experience misdiagnosis and ignorance of their symptoms, in part because for centuries females were excluded from important medical research"--OCLC.

Flint Minett has keratoconus, an eye disease, but desperately wants to win a comic book art contest so that he and his new friend McKell Panganiban will be better accepted at middle school.