terminally ill children

Hiding the truth about her unhappiness and struggles with anxiety from everyone including her family, best friend, and therapist, Andrea Bern joins her loved ones in a reevaluation of family strength in the wake of her newborn niece's heartbreaking ailment.

Mitsuki has refused the operation that would save her life because it would take her voice; but Ms. Oshige decides to put Mitsuki in the hospital after her first concert, no matter what.

Mitsuki is imprisoned within the barrier of the Lord of the Underworld and pleads for Izumi's help, but the Shinigami is frozen with the fear of releasing the memory of the moment of his death and won't rescue her.

Mitsuki's popularity as Fullmoon has skyrocketed, but she learns that fame carries a heavy price when a bomb disguised as a birthday present explodes in Ms. Oshige's face.

Mitsuki's love for Eichi has helped her fight her cancer, but as her illness progresses, Mitsuki's memories of Eichi begin to fade and her friends try to convince Mitsuki there is more to live for than her lost love.

When a comical pair of magical beings arrive to grant twelve-year-old Mitsuki's every wish, she instantly becomes a pop star, but soon learns the dark side of the glitz and glamour.

A tumor in her throat prevents twelve-year-old Mituski Koyama from becoming a pop star; but when two messengers of death appear to her, they agree to help her with her dream by changing her age to sixteen and placing her disease in remission.

"Piano prodigy Claire Fairchild, 14, has always known music would be her life. So when she has the opportunity to enter a prestigious contest, she goes all in--until she realizes she's also competing against Juan, a close childhood friend and one of the most talented musicians she knows. It doesn't help that her thoughts about him are turning romantic. When Claire and her family receive a devastating blow from Batten disease, her world enters a tailspin. Claire decides her musical goals no longer seem relevant. She can't reconcile the joy that music could bring to her life while her brothers succumb to an early and ugly death. Her decision puts everything at risk: her friendship with Juan, her parents' expectations, and her own happiness. After Claire accompanies a friend on a school newspaper assignment, she meets a centenarian with a surprising musical past and only one regret in life. Claire knows something in her life has to change before it's too late, but she's not sure she has the courage to take the next step"--Back cover.

The day twelve-year-old Stanly finds a finger bone growing into a skeleton in his yard everything changes--his seven-year-old sister Miren adopts the skeleton, which only children can see, as a friend and playmate, and as her health continues to deteriorate Stanly blames the skeleton and tries to drive it away, although it is the only thing that seems to give Miren any joy.

When Mitsuki's alter ego, Fullmoon, gets a new producer, Mitsuki is shocked to learn it is the doctor who is treating her cancer, and hopes he will not blow her cover and reveal her secret.