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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Everybody used to love Karen. She was cute. She was the little sister. But now baby Emily is in their family, and Karen feels left out. Then Emily gets sick and everybody has to take care of her. Even Karen. And that's when Karen finds out that being a big sister is the most fun of all!" -- Back cover.
Author
Series
Red gloves series volume 1
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
One long-ago Christmas, Big Earl Gibson lost the two things most precious to him-his wife and daughter. Angry and heartbroken, he abandoned his belief in God and is now living on the street. Gideon is a seven-year-old leukemia patient determined to reach out to this lonely and hurting man. And Earl is just as determined to rebuff her. It is only through a miracle that Earl finally comes to understand the true meaning of Christmas. And it's only then...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Meg Murry can't help but be worried when her six-year-old brother, Charles Wallace, announces there are dragons in the vegetable garden. He's so bright, and so different from other kids, he's getting bullied at school, and he is also strangely, seriously ill. But Charles Wallace is right about the dragons - actually a friendly entity who has come to help Charles Wallace fight his sickness, and to take Meg and her friend Calvin O'Keefe on a terrifying,...
4) Snow
Author
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
The blizzard on Christmas Eve brings college professor Erick Mueller and young widow Mary Withers together in the most desperate of situations. Will it be a night of miracles and hope?
Author
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Conceived to provide a bone marrow match for her leukemia-stricken sister, teenage Kate begins to question her moral obligations in light of countless medical procedures and decides to fight for the right to make decisions about her own body.
6) Powwow day
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
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.
8) Gold
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kate and Zoe met at nineteen when they both made the cut for the national training program in track cycling-a sport that demands intense focus, blinding exertion, and unwavering commitment. They are built to exploit the barest physical and psychological edge over equally skilled rivals, all of whom are fighting for the last one tenth of a second that separates triumph from despair.Now at thirty-two, the women are facing their last and biggest race:...
Series
Publisher
Hallmark Hall Of Fame Productions
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Vanessa Marks returns to her hometown library to read to children the book that she wrote, "November Christmas." The book is about her serious illness as a child and how her family and community teamed up to move Halloween to August and Christmas to November to help her.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"When A Christmas Carol was first published in 1843 it was an overnight success, and set a precedent that was to be followed by other Christmas books, including The Chimes (1844) and The Cricket (1845). Each book was published at the same time of year, in the same format, and extolled similar values about the virtues of love, charity and the family unit. But none would achieve the cult status of A Christmas Carol, a book so popular it has become part...
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