leukemia

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leukemia

Why, Charlie Brown, why?

a story about what happens when a friend is very ill
2002
Charlie Brown and the rest of the Peanuts gang look for answers after one of their friends is diagnosed with leukemia.

Leukemia

2000
Describes the nature, symptoms, and causes of leukemia, gives a history of its study, and discusses various ways of treating it.

My sister's keeper

a novel
2009
Thirteen-year-old Anna, conceived specifically to provide blood and bone marrow for her sister Kate who was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia at the age of two, decides to sue her parents for control of her body when her mother wants her to donate a kidney to Kate.

Invincible summer

1989
Seventeen-year-old Robin, in treatment for leukemia, falls in love with a boy who also has the disease, and together they attempt to survive their ordeal.

Something for Joey

1983
Biography of football player John Cappelletti, winner of the 1973 Heisman Trophy, and his younger brother Joey, who fought a losing battle with leukemia.

Six months to live

1985
A thirteen-year-old girl is devastated when she is diagnosed with leukemia but meets a new best friend while at the hospital for chemotherapy.

One thousand paper cranes

the story of Sadako and the Children's Peace Statue
2001
Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima by the name of Sadako races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy. After her death, Sadako's classmates campaign to build the Children's Peace Statue in memory of Sadako and the other children who were victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

One day at a time

children living with leukemia
1989
Focuses on children with leukemia and follows them as they are treated for their illness.

Something for Joey

1978
Biography of football player John Cappelletti, winner of the 1973 Heisman Trophy, and his younger brother Joey, who fought a losing battle with leukemia.

Bluish

a novel
2005
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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