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2) Unstoppable
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
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"If anyone understands the phrase 'tough luck,' it's Harrison. As a foster kid in a cruel home, he knows his dream of one day playing for the NFL is a long shot. Then Harrison's luck seems to change. He is brought into a new home with kind, loving parents--his new dad is even a football coach. Harrison's big build and his incredible determination quickly make him a star running back on the junior high school team. In no time, he's practically unstoppable....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
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Eight-year-old Tess is convinced that if she believes and stays aware of the magic around her, she will meet Santa Claus on Christmas Eve of 1958, when she will thank him for his gifts and ask him to use his magic to cure her best friend's father of cancer.
6) Love, Ish
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
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Twelve-year-old Mischa "Ish" Love's longtime dream has been to someday live on Mars, but when she collapses on the first day of seventh grade, Ish receives a diagnosis which threatens her future plans.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
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Thirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began when his mother became ill--an ancient, wild creature that wants him to face truth and loss.
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Young wizards volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
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Teenage wizard Nita travels to other universes to find a cure for her mother who has brain cancer.
11) Side effects
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
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Everything changes for Isabelle, not quite fifteen, when she is diagnosed with lymphoma--but eventually she survives and even thrives.
12) The F it list
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"Becca has cancer. She doesn't know what the outcome of her treatment will be. Alex is Becca's best friend, and wants to help. And if the only way she can is by completing Becca's bucket list, then so be it"--From publisher description.
13) Toning the sweep
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
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On a visit to her grandmother Ola, who is dying of cancer in her house in the desert, fourteen-year-old Emmie hears many stories about the past and her family history and comes to a better understanding of relatives both dead and living.
14) Solving for m
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
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"Shortly after starting fifth grade, Mika learns that her mother has cancer and uses her math notebook to explore the new changes in her life"--
16) Private label
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Serene dreams of making couture dresses even more stunning than her mom's, but for now she's an intern at her mom's fashion label. When her mom receives a sudden diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, all that changes. Serene has to take over her mother's business overnight while trying to figure out what happened with her dad in Beijing. He left before she was born, and Serene wants to find him, even if it means going against her mom's one request--never...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
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In Wisconsin, fourth-grader Ida B spends happy hours being home-schooled and playing in her family's apple orchard, until her mother begins treatment for breast cancer and her parents must sell part of the orchard and send her to public school.
19) Hope was here
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
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When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner owner's political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
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Toward the end of the disco era, seventeen-year-old Edna refuses to visit her mother, who is in a New York City hospital undergoing cancer treatment, and barely speaks to her father, who finally puts her in psychotherapy, while her crush on an art teacher turns into a full-blown affair.