McDaniel, Lurlene

Having survived chemotherapy, Dawn wants to live her life like other teenagers, but is haunted by the fear that the cancer may return.

A collection of three stories in which teenagers face life-altering situations.

Relates the complicated friendship of a teenaged girl, her best friend, her best friend's boyfriend, and a young heart transplant recipient.

Contains two novels by Lurlene McDaniel, including "Somewhere Between Life and Death" in which Erin and her family must somehow find a way to let go when her sister Amy is involved in a terrible accident; and "Time to Let Go" in which Erin, plagued by headaches since the death of her sister a year earlier, cannot figure out why the pain gets so much worse when David Devlin is around.

At sixteen Melissa does not want to face the facts that she is seriously ill. But as her illness gets worse, she cannot deny the truth.

Sarah needs a bone marrow transplant to live but she is adopted and her family cannot be donors. She receives an anonymous that letter allows her to search for her birth mother. What will she discover?.

With the support of her two best friends, sixteen-year-old Kathleen tries to balance her summer volunteer work at the hospital with her responsibilities caring for her mother, who has multiple sclerosis, and her attraction to a handsome boy.

Jordan Starling enters the eight grade after an uneventful summer, and to compete with one of the popular girls, she makes up a summer romance with the son of her mother's best friend.

Presents two novels that follow the life of sixteen-year-old Melissa Austin after she is diagnosed with leukemia, and the struggles of her friend Jory, and her other friends and family members to come to terms with the fact that Melissa is dying.

Fourteen-year-old Deanne decides to spend her summer vacation helping in the oncology ward of the hospital and risks having her heart broken when she befriends a young man dying of cancer.