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When Papillon's hiccups cause him to stop floating, Miss Tilly rushes him to a clinic where, once he feels better, he makes new friends.

Teenager Darcy moves with her family from England to the U.S. near Yellowstone National Park. She's been sick and has strange dreams or visions. Then she finds an injured bear who seems to need her, but Darcy is barely well enough to take care of herself. As the two grow closer, they must confront the law of nature: kill or be killed.

Katie misses school while she is home with the flu.

"It's been four years since a meteor hit Perdido Beach and everyone disappeared. Everyone, except the kids trapped in the FAYZ--an invisible dome that was created by an alien virus. Inside the FAYZ, animals began to mutate and teens developed dangerous powers. The terrifying new world was plagued with hunger, lies, and fear of the unknown. Now the dome is gone and meteors are hitting earth with an even deadlier virus. Humans will mutate into monsters and the whole world will be exposed. As some teens begin to morph into heroes, they will find that others have become dangerously out of control--and that the world is on the brink of a monstrous battle between good and evil"--Publisher's website.

High school sophomore Kat struggles with her twelve-year-old brother's recurring leukemia and likely death while coping with mean girls at school and possible romance.

"To Christina Olson, the entire world was her family's remote farm in the small coastal town of Cushing, Maine. Born in the home her family had lived in for generations, and increasingly incapacitated by illness, Christina seemed destined for a small life. Instead, for more than twenty years, she was host and inspiration for the artist Andrew Wyeth, and became the subject of one the best-known paintings of the twentieth century, "Christina's World."--Jacket flap.

When the reindeer get bad colds, Santa Claus wonders who will be able to pull his sleigh on Christmas Eve.

Ben and his sister must take over the family farm when their father mysteriously falls ill in the spring of 1855.

In the summer of 1956, while her mother is in Florida searching for a job, fourteen-year-old April Garnet Rose, who has never met her father, stays with her terminally ill aunt in Virginia and accompanies her as she visits different churches, looking for God.

"Addresses the practical changes that result when a family member falls ill and guides readers through the emotional process of dealing with the illness of a loved one"--Amazon.com.