Lurlene McDaniel
Author
Series
Dawn Rochelle volume 2
Publisher
Darby Creek Pub
Pub. Date
[between 2000 and 2009?], ©1987.
Language
English
Description
At fourteen Dawn Rochelle has already survived her first bout with leukemia and has been in remission for almost a year. But, the fear of it returning is always there, and this year it becomes real. Conventional therapy fails; now a bone marrow transplant may be all that can save her.
Author
Series
Dawn Rochelle volume 4
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Being sixteen means all kinds of freedom—driving on your own, going to the mall with friends, dating. But Dawn Rochelle can't feel free because of the fear that her cancer will return. Maybe her greatest freedom can only come when she has the courage to live—when she has no time to cry.
3) Last dance
Author
Publisher
Darby Creek Pub
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Rachel Deering, an otherwise normal 13-year-old aspiring ballerina from Miami, suddenly finds herself in the hospital, diagnosed with diabetes. Now she needs to learn how to manage her disease, and to cope with being different from all her friends. Will she ever dance again?
Author
Series
Publisher
Darby Creek Pub
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Jordan Starling enters the eighth grade after an uneventful summer. To compete with one of the popular girls, she makes up a summer romance. The only problem is the "romance" was with Ryan, the son of her mother's best friend. Now, Ryan's parents have split up and Ryan and his mom are coming to live with the Starlings.
Author
Series
Publisher
Willowisp
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Feisty, thirteen-year-old Megan McCaffery is proud to be a tomboy, and she just can't relate to the southern belles in her hometown of Charleston, South Carolina. Her older sister, Audrey, is driving her crazy with constant talk about her upcoming wedding. When a popular girl at school takes an interest in Megan's best friend, John-Paul,...
6) Hit and run
Author
Language
English
Description
Events surrounding the hit and run accident of a popular high school student are told from the viewpoints of those involved, including the victim.
10) Garden of angels
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
In in Conners, Georgia, 1974, fourteen-year-old Darcy tries to deal with her mother's battle with breast cancer, as she also faces new feelings for an outcast senior at her school and learns that the war in Vietnam is more than a school project.
Author
Series
Dawn Rochelle volume 1
Publisher
Darby Creek Pub
Pub. Date
[between 2000 and 2009?], ©1985.
Language
English
Description
At thirteen Dawn Rochelle is diagnosed with leukemia. She thought that thirteen is supposed to be a great age--dances, cheerleading, boys--she never thought it would also include cancer. She's facing the toughest fight of her life--a fight she has to win.
12) Breathless
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A high school diving champion develops bone cancer in this story told from the points of view of the diver, his best friend, his sister, and his girlfriend.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-olds Ciana Beauchamp, Arie Winslow, and Eden McLauren of Tennessee rely on their close friendship as they face serious problems the summer before they start college, from parents' illnesses, to cancer, to two loving the same cowboy.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Leah's mother is bewildered that Leah would rather work in a bed-and-breakfast inn all summer than sail to Fiji with her family. But the inn happens to be near the kind Amish family who befriended her while she was in the hospital diagnosed with bone cancer. Now that her cancer is in remission, she would like nothing better than to visit with them-especially their handsome son, Ethan. Leah's and Ethan's feelings for each other are mutual. But trouble...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
To escape her father's overprotectiveness, twenty-year-old Kenzie Caine spends the summer working at a horse farm rehabilitating Tennessee Walking horses, where a good deed results in a violent end to the summer and the revelation of her attractive assistant's secrets.
16) Prey
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Told from their separate points of view, fifteen-year-old Ryan has a secret affair with his thirty-three-year-old history teacher at an Atlanta high school, and his best friend Honey becomes determined to uncover the reason he is increasingly distant.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Desi thinks it's totally unfair that innocent baby Alicia was born HIV positive. Now the eight-month-old Alicia lives at Childcare because she was given away by her sick teenage mother. Desi can relate to feeling unloved. Can Desi cope with the harsh realities and still believe in love?
18) Briana's gift
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
When a pregnant seventeen-year-old girl is hospitalized and in a coma, her younger sister faces several difficult choices while dealing with loss, love, and life at Christmastime.