Lurlene McDaniel
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! 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?
2) Last Dance
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Rachel Deering has her eyes on her toes: she wants to become a world-class ballerina. As a 14-year-old, she is already one of the best dancers in the country. Just as she prepares for an audition for an opening with a prestigious dance troupe, Rachel starts having some very disturbing symptoms. After collapsing at school, she has many tests and her doctor tells her the news: She has diabetes. Now her world consists of blood tests, insulin shots,
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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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?
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! "Junior high will be a blast," promises Andrea Manetti's best friend. But while exciting things are happening at school-new friends, boys, and a chance to star in the musical-Andrea's home life is falling apart. Her parents are always fighting; her mom's new job means Andrea has to help more with the family. And then there's Andrea's brother....
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Series
Dawn Rochelle novels volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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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.
Author
Series
Dawn Rochelle novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
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.
Author
Series
Dawn Rochelle novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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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...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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For thirteen years, Elly has been in Kathy's shadow, always second best. Even so, the two of them understand each other as only sisters can. Jealousy, anger, and resentment give way to guilt when Kathy dies suddenly and Elly is left to ask, "Why did she have to die?"
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
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,...
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Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Leah is not happy about being stuck in the hospital for the holidays while her mother is thousands of miles away on a honeymoon with husband number five. Until she meets her hospital roommate, Rebekah, and her big family. Cynical 16-year-old Leah has never known people like this before. From Rebekah’s handsome brother, Ethan, who can barely look Leah in the eye, to her kind older sister, Charity, the Amish family captivates Leah with its simple,...
12) I Want to Live
Author
Series
Dawn Rochelle novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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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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Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Nothing in April Lancaster's future seems certain as she battles a brain tumor that doctors say is inoperable. The hospital is the last place she would expect to find love - until she meets Mark Gianni.
Mark is handsome and charming, and he also has terminal Cystic Fibrosis. Despite initial reservations, the two quickly fall in love and plan to spend the rest of their lives together...no matter how long that may be. When...
Mark is handsome and charming, and he also has terminal Cystic Fibrosis. Despite initial reservations, the two quickly fall in love and plan to spend the rest of their lives together...no matter how long that may be. When...
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Series
Angels trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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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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Series
Angels trilogy volume 1
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English
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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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Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Julie Ellis and Luke Muldenhower have always been the perfect high school sweethearts. Luke is a talented football player set to receive an athletic scholarship to a top college, and Julie is prepared to follow wherever he goes. When Luke is unexpectedly diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, however, their relationship will be tested beyond anything they've ever experienced before.
In this national bestseller, Lurlene McDaniel...
In this national bestseller, Lurlene McDaniel...
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Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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In this sequel to Till Death Do Us Part, a grief-stricken April Lancaster flees to St. Croix island to cope with the loss of her fiancee. There on the beach, she meets a dark and broody Brandon Benedict who is still dealing with the pain of his mother's recent suicide. Though the two quickly become close through their shared grief, April does not reveal that she is battling an incurable brain tumor. When April's health...
18) Red Heart Tattoo
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Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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In the vein of This is Where It Ends, this exploration of grief and tragedy in the aftermath of a bomb explosion at a high school is sadly topical and powerfully heartrending.
At 7:45 a.m. a bomb goes off at Edison High.
Nine people die instantly. Fifteen are critically wounded. Twenty-two are injured. One is blinded.
In the aftermath of the violent tragedy, survive struggle to cope...
At 7:45 a.m. a bomb goes off at Edison High.
Nine people die instantly. Fifteen are critically wounded. Twenty-two are injured. One is blinded.
In the aftermath of the violent tragedy, survive struggle to cope...
19) Briana's Gift
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Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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Thirteen-year-old Casey's mother always said that Casey's sixteen-year-old sister marched to the beat of a different drummer. But it isn't until Briana runs away with an older boy that Casey begins to understand what her mother meant. When Briana returns home alone and pregnant, Casey and her mother try to help Briana come to terms with her options.
It was already complicated to think about Briana's choices and then things change suddenly again....
It was already complicated to think about Briana's choices and then things change suddenly again....
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Series
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English
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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, Megan is surprised at her own jealousy. Was she losing her tomboy edge? But when her mother's mysterious headaches...