cancer

"Maddy is sixteen. She has loyal friends, a mother with whom she's unusually close, a father she's never met, devoted grandparents, and a crush on a boy named Jack. Maddy also has cancer. Deeply curious, wry, and vivacious, she's poised at the outset of adulthood, ready to untangle all the mysteries that living holds--if she survives her teens"--Provided by publisher.

When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner owner's political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor.

Eleven-year-old Toby wants a normal vacation, so he keeps secret a new lump he discovers to avoid additional treatments for his cancer. He learns about the important things in life from Pearl, an older woman on a nearby farm, and her cow named Blossom.

When Jamie, nicknamed "Punkzilla, " travels by bus to see his fatally ill older brother, Peter, he writes letters to him detailing his experiences along the way.

Seventeen-year-old Leah's quest to make the national soccer team does not seem so important when she learns that her father has cancer and may only have months to live.

"The last person Zac expects in the room next door is a girl like Mia, angry and feisty with questionable taste in music. In the real world, he wouldn't, couldn't, be friends with her. In the hospital different rules apply, and what begins as a knock on the wall leads to a note, then a friendship neither of them sees coming"--Provided by publisher.

"In the pages of her notebook, soon after her father is diagnosed with cancer, Jade invents an imaginary best friend she can depend on--Zoe; but when Zoe somehow magically shows up in real life, Jade wonders how genuine their friendship can possibly be if Jade's controlling Zoe through what she writes in her notebook"--Provided by publisher.

Twelve-year-olds Cady and Nana explore the strengths of their special friendship as they cope with Nana's cancer.

The story of the friendship between football players Gale Sayers and Brian Piccolo. Explores how these very different men, one white and the other black, came to know, fight, and ultimately help each other.

Although Jeff and Tad, encouraged by a new friend, Lindsey, make a deal to help one another overcome aftereffects of their cancer treatments in preparation for eighth-grade graduation, Jeff still craves advice from his older brother Stephen, who is studying drums in Africa.