Sorell, Traci
Summary: Because she has been very ill and weak, River cannot join in the dancing at this year's tribal powwow, she can only watch from the sidelines as her sisters and cousins dance the celebration--but as the drum beats she finds the faith to believe that she will recover and dance again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SORColfer, Eoin
Summary: Six-year-old Erin's favorite game is spotting animals in the clouds with her mom and dad--everything from fluffy foxes and polar bears to little rabbits. Even when Erin falls very ill and has to spend a long time in the hospital, she still manages to find joy in spying "cloud babies" through the window with her new hospital friends. When the doctor tells Erin she can go home, she is so excited!...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COLHarris, Taylor
Summary: "One morning, Tophs, Taylor Harris's round-cheeked, lively twenty-two-month-old, wakes up listless and unresponsive. At the hospital, her maternal instincts are confirmed: something is wrong with her boy, and Taylor's life will never be the same. With every question the doctors answer about Tophs's increasingly troubling symptoms, more arise, and Taylor dives into the search for a diagnosis....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARRIS, TAYLOR HARPicoult, Jodi
Summary: All her life, 13-year old Anna has helped her sister fight leukemia. Anna has provided platelets, bone marrow, and even stem cells to ensure Kate's survival. But when their parents ask her to donate a kidney, Anna has had enough. She enlists the aid of a lawyer and announces her intention to sue for control of her own body.--
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PICL'Engle, Madeleine.
Summary: With Meg Murry's help, the dragons her six-year-old brother saw in the vegetable garden play an important part in his struggle between life and death. Includes an interview with the author.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Square Fish 2007
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Summary: Specializing in a rare disease that causes children to age drastically, Dr. Henry Moss is confronted with an ethical dilemma when he meets a family whose two children are affected in dramatically different ways by the same disease.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BYEBemelmans, Ludwig
Summary: Madeline, smallest and naughtiest of the twelve charges of Miss Clavel, wakes up one night with an attack of appendicitis.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Live Oak Media 1998
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JPB Bem BasketBrie, Alison
Summary: A headhunter struggles to balance his career with his family life when his ten-year-old son is diagnosed with cancer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Family 2017Buckley, Carla (Carla S.)
Summary: Eve Lattimore's family is like every other on their suburban street, with one exception. Her son Tyler has a rare medical condition that makes him fatally sensitive to light, which means heavy curtains and deadlocked doors protect him during the day and he can never leave the house except at night. For Eve, only constant vigilance stands between an increasingly restless teenage son and the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BUCDanneberg, Julie
Summary: Mrs. Hartwell is home sick today, and throughout the day her students send her emails informing her about what is happening as the other teachers take turns watching the class--and the room becomes increasingly messy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DANLaCorte, Ellen
Summary: Motherhood is tough. But then, so is daughterhood. When we first meet Claire, she's living in Sedona, Arizona with her boyfriend Cal and ducking calls from her mother. Her mom is a world class psychic on the East Coast and Claire doesn't want her to discover the truth. Claire works in the family business and calls herself a psychic, but she doesn't really have "the gift" and hasn't for a long...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LACMartin, Ann M.
Summary: Everybody used to love Karen. She was cute. She was the littlest sister. But now baby Emily is in their family, and Karen feels left out. Then Emily gets sick and everybody has to take care of her. Even Karen. And that's when Karen finds out that being a big sister is the most fun of all!--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "Sylvie wakes one night, suddenly, without knowing why. Then she sees the most spectacular sight - a pair of wings, enormous in size, made of the softest snow-white feathers imaginable. An angel in her bedroom--a Snow angel! He tells her that he is here to look after her, for Sylvie is not as well as she seems. Many months later, as Sylvie recovers from her illness, she longs to see her snow...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE O'FASummary: Vanessa Marks returns to her hometown library to read to children the book that she wrote, "November Christmas." The book is about her serious illness as a child and how her family and community teamed up to move Halloween to August and Christmas to November to help her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Hall Of Fame Productions 2010
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Holiday NSummary: Elmo has an earache, a fever, and a stuffy nose to boot. That's got him singing the blues. Elmo soon learns that going to the doctor can help make aches and pains feel better. DVD also includes an all-new Elmo's World.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Wonder 2005
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2 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SESDonoghue, Emma
Summary: "Tourists flock to the cabin of eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell, who is said to be living without food, and a journalist is sent to cover the sensation. Lib Wright, a veteran of Florence Nightingale's Crimean campaign, is hired to keep watch over the girl. As Anna's life ebbs away, Lib finds herself responsible not just for the care of a child but for that child's very survival. Haunting and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DONGere, Richard
Summary: A young boy who is ill is taken on a magical adventure where he meets New York Yankee legends, both past and present.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV HENMartin, Ann M.
Summary: "Everybody used to love Karen. She was cute. She was the little sister. But now baby Emily is in their family, and Karen feels left out. Then Emily gets sick and everybody has to take care of her. Even Karen. And that's when Karen finds out that being a big sister is the most fun of all!" -- Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DORHallett, Janice
Summary: "The Fairway Players, an amateur theater group, are in the middle of rehearsals for their production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons when tragedy strikes the family of director Martin Hayward and his wife, Helen. Their young granddaughter is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer and faces an experimental treatment that costs a tremendous sum, so their fellow castmates rally to raise the money to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction HallettKraegel, Kenneth
Summary: When Mother Shrew discovers she needs honey from the moon to save her sick son Hugo, she is determined to find the honey no matter what obstacles cross her path.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KRAPicoult, Jodi
Summary: "Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. The product of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate -- a life and a role that she has never challenged...until now. Like...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: P PICShort, Sharon Gwyn.
Summary: Talented high-school senior Donna Lane yearns to leave her Midwestern home in pursuit of a career in design, but she feels obligated to stay and care for her helpless father and her younger brother, Will. In fragile health and obsessed with the television show Sergeant Striker and the Alaskan Wild, Wills dearest companion is a mute Siberian Husky named Trusty. The arrival of two outsiders...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2013