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Sleeping spells & dragon scales

2024
Two friends, Liam and Alaina, embark on a journey to unravel the mystery of Liam's mysterious illness, drawing upon their knowledge of fairy tales and employing Alaina's own experience with an invisible adversary, type 1 diabetes, as they navigate a world of curses and magical solutions to save Liam.
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Joined at the joints

2024
Chronically ill seventeen-year-old Ivy, finds solace in baking and watching the Food Network to cope with her illness and social anxiety, but when she meets a cute classmate with the same juvenile rheumatoid arthritis diagnosis, she must decide whether to maintain a facade or be brave and let go in their budding romance.
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Ellie Haycock is totally normal

2024
Ellie, a high schooler with a rare genetic condition, navigates the divide between her "hospital-life" and "home-life," as a hospital stay brings her closer to Ryan, who challenges her perspective and makes her consider the extraordinary possibilities of her life.
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Virus hunters

how science protects people when outbreaks and pandemics strike
2024
A propulsive nonfiction look at the elite squads of scientists, doctors, and infectious disease experts who guard the boundary between public health and pandemics and how they gather data via boots on the ground "shoe-leather epidemiology" in order to save lives.

The year my life went down the toilet

2024
Twelve-year-old Al, short for Alison, navigates an overprotective mother, growing apart from her best friend, and her first girl crush, all while her recent Crohn's diagnosis puts a knot in her stomach.

Tana cooks for a special Veterans Day

2025
Excited to host her great uncle Charles, a Vietnam War veteran, at her school's Veterans Day celebration, Tana becomes worried when a virus outbreak threatens to cancel the event. Includes recipes for pumpkin puree.

Mapmakers and the enchanted mountain

2023
Alidade, Lewis, and Blue encounter a young boy named Cado, who brings them to his hidden Mountain village where his people are suffering from a mysterious illness, and Alidade, determined to prove her worth as a Mapmaker, tries to bring balance and magic to the Mountain.

The passage

a novel
2018
FBI agent Brad Wolgast vows to protect six-year-old orphan Amy Harper Bellafonte after a government military experiment she was involved in goes bad, unleashing a toxic virus that turns humans into bloodthirsty monsters.

The glitter bug

"Bo Tinseltail and friends meet a kitsune who helps them find a cure after they all catch the Glitter Bug"--.
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