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1) Nest
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On Cape Cod in 1972, eleven-year-old Naomi, known as Chirp for her love of birds, gets help from neighbor Joey as she struggles to cope with her mother's multiple sclerosis and its effect on her father and sister.
3) Magonia
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Magonia novels volume 1
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Aza Ray Boyle's life has been defined by a unique lung disease and her evolving friendship with Jason. But just before her sixteenth birthday, she's swept up into the sky-bound world of Magonia and discovers her true identity.
4) Powwow day
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2022.
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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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Amelia Linehan could see a roller derby opponent a mile away-- and that's while crouched down, bent over skates, and zooming around a track at the speed of light. What she couldn't see coming was the flare-up of the rare liver disorder she was born with. With no guarantee of a viable organ transplant, college plans or the possibility of one day falling in love have become a huge question mark. Will, a friend from the past, shows up and makes Amelia...
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"Isabel has one rule: no dating. It's easier-it's safer-it's better-for the other person. She's got issues. She's got secrets. She's got rheumatoid arthritis. But then she meets another sick kid. He's got a chronic illness Isabel's never heard of, something she can't even pronounce. He understands what it means to be sick. He understands her more than her healthy friends. He understands her more than her own father, who's a doctor. He's gorgeous,...
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Time quintet volume 2
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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.
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Circus Mirandus volume 1
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"When he realizes that his grandfather's stories of an enchanted circus are true, Micah Tuttle sets out to find the mysterious Circus Mirandus--and to use its magic to save his grandfather's life"--
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Sunlit Lands volume 1
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When Madeline, a teen with terminal lung disease, accepts healing in exchange for a year of service in the Sunlit Lands, she and her friend Jason enjoy being privileged members of Elenil society, until they learn that magic carries a high price.
12) Snowflake, AZ
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Snowflake, Arizona, six thousand feet up in the wide red desert. Ash is looking for her brother, Bly. She Mona; her goat, Socrates; her dog, Cooper; and finds Bly. They live in ramshackle homes, the walls lined with tinfoil. Mona and her neighbors are all sick. They've been poisoned by modern life. When Ash falls ill, the doctor says "It's all in your mind." Ash and the isolated residents of Snowflake cycle through illness, recovery and loss as the...
13) Bear feels sick
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Bear books (Karma Wilson) volume 5
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When Bear is too sick to play, his animal friends go to his cave to make him soup and tea and keep him company.
14) The ash house
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"When eleven-year-old Sol arrives at the Ash House, desperate for a cure for his complex pain syndrome, he finds a community of strange children long abandoned by their mysterious Headmaster. The children at the Ash House want the new boy to love their home as much as they do. They give him a name like theirs. They show him the dorms and tell him about the wonderful oasis that the Headmaster has created for them. But the new boy already has a name....
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After her journalist-father's mysterious death in 2008, fifteen-year-old Shamiso must leave England for boarding school in Zimbabwe. There she and Tanyaradzwa, who is fighting cancer, form an unexpected friendship. In opening herself to someone with a potentially fatal illness, Shamiso knows she might be opening herself to more pain. Yet Tanyaradzwa is the only one who gives her the strength to ask what really happened to her father. -- adapted from...
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"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 angel again. He saved her life! There is so much she wants...
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"Amos McGee, a friendly zookeeper, always made time to visit his good friends: the elephant, the tortoise, the penguin, the rhinoceros, and the owl. But one day--'Ah-choo!'--he woke with the sniffles and the sneezes. Though he didn't make it into the zoo that day, he did receive some unexpected guests."--Dust jacket.
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