huntington's disease

Eighteen-year-old Jewish twin sisters Adina and Tovah are complete opposites. Adina is a viola prodigy, while Tovah is a brilliant student pursuing her dream of going to medical school to be a surgeon. But both anxiously await the results of their genetic test that determines whether they inherited their mother's Huntington's disease. When the results come back, one twin is negative for the disease, the other is positive. The news pushes the twins to come to terms with their mother's illness, their faith, the future, and their relationship with each other.

"Trevor, who has Huntington's disease, connects with an old man who helps him live his life more fully"--Provided by publisher.

Eighteen-year-old twins Adina, a viola prodigy, and Tovah, a future surgeon, find their relationship tested when they learn that one of them will develop Huntington's, the degenerative disease ravaging their mother.

When her father is diagnosed with Hungtington's disease, eighteen-year-old Vanni abandons her plan to flee her small New Mexico hometown after high school graduation and instead spends the summer keeping herself busy with part-time jobs and boys, but that changes after she meets Leigh, whose friendship dares Vanni to ask herself big questions and make new plans.

Huntington’s disease is an incurable and fatal degenerative condition that robs people of normal brain function when they should be in the prime of life. This book describes the condition and the genetic causes behind it, follows researchers on their path to scientific discovery, identifies people with the condition who have spoken up for the good of others, and tracks the latest treatments and research aimed at helping those living with it.

Seventeen-year-old dirt-bike-riding daredevil Arlo Santiago catches the eye of the U.S. military with his first-place ranking on a video game featuring drone warfare, and must reconcile the work they want him to do with the emotional scars he has suffered following a violent death in his family.

Rose Levenson is a 17-year-old ballerina who is watching her mother slowly die from Huntington's Disease. Which means, Rosie has a 50/50 chance of having the disease herself. Determined not to allow herself to pursue dreams that could be dashed if she does have the disease, she refuses to consider love or go after her dream of dancing professionally. That is until she meets a boy who changes her mind.