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A mess of everything

2009
High school student, Melissa, tries to cope with an anxiety-induced drug habit as well as an anorexic best friend and other everyday problems that young people face.

Fireflies

1988
The story of best-selling author David Morrell's fifteen-year-old son, Matthew, who for six months fought bravely against a rare form of bone cancer.

What was good about today

1984
A mother's story of how she and her eight-year-old daughter, with leukemia, search to find something good about each day.

Be a friend

children who live with HIV speak
1994
Children who have come to the National Cancer Institute express their hopes and fears in their own art and writing.

Thursday's child

1980
The author recounts the events leading to her son's heart transplant in 1977 and describes how their large family supported him during his illness and recovery.

Thom Hartmann's complete guide to ADHD

help for your family at home, school, and work
2000
Presents the neurological baseline of the Hunter/Farmer theory of ADD/ADHD and suggests a variety of ways that people with ADHD can find success in school, at work, and in relationships.

Against medical advice

a true story
2009
Tells the true story of Cory Friedman and his thirteen-year battle with Tourette syndrome, numerous medications and treatments, and his family's determination to find help for their son.

A time to mend

2006
Oncology nurse Jacquelyn Wilkes finds herself drawn to the clinic's new doctor, Jonah Martin, despite his unconventional ways, but when she discovers a lump in her breast, she begins to question everything in her life and wonders if she can open her heart up to both Jonah's love and God's saving grace.

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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