leukemia

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leukemia

Bluish

a novel
Ten-year-old Dreenie feels both intrigued and frightened when she thinks about the girl nicknamed Bluish, whose leukemia is making her pale and causing her to use a wheelchair.
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Raina's story

After sixteen-year-old Raina learns that she is a perfect match for donating bone marrow to a leukemia patient in Virginia, she discovers that the young woman is the sister she never knew she had.

Sadako and the thousand paper cranes

Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.

Sadako y las mil grullas de papel

Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.
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Sadako and the thousand paper cranes

Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.
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Me and Earl and the dying girl

a novel
Seventeen-year-old Greg has become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.

Tell me something real

Vanessa, the quiet middle child of a set of three beautiful sisters, is struggling to hold her family together as her mother travels between San Diego and Mexico, receiving treatments for leukemia that are banned in the U.S. But under all the sisters' chaos is a secret that could shatter their connection for good.
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Cellular

Brendan, the popular captain of the basketball team, rejects all offers of help after being diagnosed with leukemia and decides to face chemotherapy alone, but his attitude changes when he meets Lark, a girl who remains positive and hopeful even though her condition is much worse than his.

Halfway Normal

Twelve-year-old cancer survivor Norah struggles to fit in at middle school after two years of treatment, but she finds her voice with the help of new friend Griffin, who shares her love of mythology.
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Anderson's heat

Anderson is the star pitcher on his Little League team of eleven-and-twelve-year-olds, and his team is in the running for the Little League World Series, but this summer he is finding it hard to concentrate on baseball because his sister has been diagnosed with leukemia, and as the summer progresses she seems to be getting worse.
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