sick

"Eleven-year-old Echo finds the courage to help her younger sister fight cancer, and, in the process, finds the love and support of an entire community"--Provided by publisher.

Seeking a rare flower that might cure her baby sister's illness, fourteen-year-old Piper Canfield, her brother Creeper, friend Tad, and two guides go to the heart of the Okefenokee Swamp, where great danger awaits.

On Cape Cod in 1972, eleven-year-old Naomi, known as Chirp for her love of birds, gets help from neighbor Joey as she struggles to cope with her mother's multiple sclerosis and its effect on her father and sister.

"For the Goddess of Wisdom, what Athena didn't know could fill a book. The assault on Olympus left them beaten and scattered and possibly dead and they have to fight the Fates themselves, who, it turns out, are the source of the gods' illness. And yes, Athena is stuck in the underworld, holding the body of the only hero she has ever loved. But Hermes is still topside, trying to power up Andie and Henry before he runs out of time and dies... Just because things haven't gone exactly according to plan, it doesn't mean they've lost. They've only mostly lost. And there's a big difference."--Provided by publisher.

When Zeke Zander, an alien from Planet Z, gets the zeebop flu, complete with green goo leaking from his eyes, he knows that he has to hide it from his Earth friends, because if they find out that he is an alien, getting sick will be the least of his problems.

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 George, his classmates, and their families go to a ski resort to compete in a charity event against two other schools, George is determined to win the snowboarding contest and meet snowboarding pro Dice Nievson until he gets sick and his best friend, Alex, must compete in his place.

A young Tibetan American girl named Tashi tries to help her ill grandfather using a traditional healing method that emphasizes both spiritual and physical wellbeing.

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.

"Set in Yellowstone National Park, teenager Darcy has moved with her family from England to the U.S. She's been sick and has strange dreams/visions. Then she finds an injured bear. The bear and Darcy need each other. But is Darcy well enough to take care of the bear, let alone herself?"--.