Lurlene McDaniel
2) Last dance
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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?
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Random House Children's Books
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2012
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English
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Somewhere Between Life and DeathThe celebration isn't supposed to end in tragedy. But the lives of sisters Amy and Erin come crashing down when Amy takes the car and has a horrible accident.Time to Let GoLanding the lead in the senior musical opposite David Devlin doesn't give Erin much pleasure. Erin knows that her headaches started just after the death of her younger sister. What is it about David that triggers Erin's violent reaction?This...
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Deanne doesn't want to spend her summer on silly debutante activities, like hanging out at the country club and flirting with the rich boys. She'd rather spend time with the kids in the cancer wing at the local hospital. Will Deanne's compassion lead her to love-and heartbreak?
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Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2007
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English
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Readers will be touched and inspired by this latest novel from bestselling author Lurlene McDaniel:
Beth's world has been torn apart. She cannot figure out how to go on when a car accident claims the lives of her entire family, and she is the only survivor. Things seem to get even worse when she moves in with her aunt and her spoiled cousin, Terri. But with the love and support of her aunt and some unexpected friends,...
Beth's world has been torn apart. She cannot figure out how to go on when a car accident claims the lives of her entire family, and she is the only survivor. Things seem to get even worse when she moves in with her aunt and her spoiled cousin, Terri. But with the love and support of her aunt and some unexpected friends,...
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Dawn Rochelle novels volume 2
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Fourteen-year-old Dawn Rochelle has had a busy year. She's been to summer camp and she's helped her brother make plans for his wedding. And Dawn has been in remission from the leukemia that threatened her life. Now she's sick again and waiting to hear the news. Has the cancer come back? Will she live to celebrate her fifteenth birthday?...
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Dawn Rochelle novels volume 3
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Fifteen-year-old Dawn Rochelle has survived cancer not once, but twice. No one knows the battle better than she does. That's why Dawn agrees to be a camp counselor for young kids with cancer-the same camp she and her best friend Sandy had attended. Now Sandy is gone. Can Dawn handle the memories? How can she help the kids if she is still...
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Dawn Rochelle novels volume 4
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! 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.
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Jordan Sterling has had a boring summer, unlike the other girls at her high school. When she hears story after story of fun summer romances, Jordan decides she has to come up with her own special boyfriend. She brags about Ryan, a gorgeous guy she met over the summer. But Ryan is a real person-a boy she's known all her life. Luckily, he...
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Dawn Rochelle novels volume 1
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English
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Thirteen is supposed to be a great age-dances, cheerleading, boys-but she never thought it would also include cancer. Dawn Rochelle is about to face the toughest fight of her life-a fight she has to win. Otherwise, she has only six months to live.
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Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2012
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Sixteen-year-old Melissa Austin has always worked hard to get what she wants. As the school year begins, her work is paying off: Her grades are up and she’s landed a coveted spot on the Brain Bowl team. She and her best friend, Jory Delaney, are determined to have the best junior year ever.
Then Melissa receives devastating news about her health. At first she refuses to accept the doctor’s diagnosis, but as her illness gets worse, she...
Then Melissa receives devastating news about her health. At first she refuses to accept the doctor’s diagnosis, but as her illness gets worse, she...
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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,...
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! It's Mandy's thirteenth birthday and her dream is coming true: She's getting a beautiful horse of her very own! But Mandy's best friend, Laura, doesn't seem very happy for her. Then tragedy strikes. Can Mandy and her new horse save Laura?
16) Breathless
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
©2009
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English
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Most people believe they have a clear idea of what's right and wrong. Many say they know how they'll act to handle an extreme situation. But to be honest, no one knows. Not really. None of us truly knows what we'll do when a situation becomes so complex and overwhelming, when something you considered wrong morphs into something right. This is what happened to me. I thought I had standards. I believed in absolutes. Then my world turned gray and my...
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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...
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It is just two weeks before Christmas, and 16-year-old Leah Lewis-Hall is stuck in a hospital room. Leah is lonely and worried, but she doesn't want to trouble her honeymooning mother. When her new roommate Rebekah needs a friend, Leah forgets her own problems as she comforts the scared little Amish girl. Leah doesn't understand the Amish customs and beliefs, but she still looks forward to Rebekah's teenaged sister and brother's visits. Romantic sparks...
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Windemere volume 1
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Ember
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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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 loving the same cowboy.