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Just don't fall

a hilariously true story of childhood cancer and Olympic greatness
"Adapted for young readers from his adult memoir, Just Don't Fall is the the hilarious true story about Josh Sundquist's battle with childhood cancer and how he worked his way to making the United States paralympic ski team.".

Warhead

the true story of one teen who almost saved the world
"A memoir about Jeff Henigson's teen Starlight Children's Foundation wish after being diagnosed with brain cancer: to meet Mikhail Gorbachev and plea for nuclear disarmament and world peace"--Provided by the publisher.
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The honest truth

A boy named Mark, tired of being sick with cancer, conceives a plan to climb Mount Rainier, and runs away from home with his dog, Beau--but with over two hundred miles between him and his goal, and only anger at his situation to drive him on nothing will be easy, and only his best friend, Jessie, suspects where he is heading.

New beginnings

2014
"Aria is a guardian angel and to earn her wings she'll have to help three different girls. Aria's first mission is Gabby Torres. Gabby's brother is sick, and Gabby's been so worried about him for so long, she's forgotten who she is. When a new school offers her a fresh start, Gabby learns it's hard to make friends while keeping half her life a secret"--OCLC.

Invincible

2016
Evie is living on borrowed time. She was diagnosed with terminal cancer several months ago and told that by now she'd be dead. Evie is grateful for every extra day she gets, but she knows that soon this disease will kill her. Until, miraculously, she may have a second chance to live. Then Evie meets Marcus. She knows that he's trouble, but she can't help falling for him. His kiss makes her feel invincible--but she may be at the beginning of the biggest free fall of her life.

The "Can" in cancer

2013
Young Eli learns he has cancer and how to deal with it.

I'm a kid living with cancer

2010
Introduces cancer, its treatments, such as diagnostic tests, chemotherapy, radiation, side effects, hospitalization, and nutrition, and the changes it brings to daily life.

Cookies for kids cancer

just the cookies
2013

Intervention

2010
New York City medical examiner Jack Stapleton considers entering alternative medicine and makes contact with two former college classmates, including an archaeologist who is digging beneath Saint Peter's and a bishop who would suppress the archaeologist's findings.

Angel in blue

the story of Ashley Martin
2000
The story of Ashley Martin, a cancer patient, written by her classmates after her death at the age of ten.

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