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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 18
Description
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro...
3) Ashley Bell
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Description
"At twenty-two, Bibi Blair's doctors tell her that she's dying. Two days later, she's impossibly cured. Fierce, funny, dauntless, she becomes obsessed with the idea that she was spared because she is meant to save someone else. Someone named Ashley Bell. This proves to be a dangerous idea. Searching for Ashley Bell, ricocheting through a Southern California landscape that proves strange and malevolent in the extreme, Bibi is plunged into a world of...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"From a bracingly beautiful new voice comes this life-affirming memoir of a daughter making and remaking her life in her mother's image. Sifting gingerly through memories of her late mother, brilliant newcomer Sarah McColl has penned a breathtaking tribute to the joy and pain of loving well. Even as her own marriage splinters, McColl drops everything when her mother is diagnosed with cancer, returning to the family farmhouse and laboring over elaborate...
7) A reckoning
Author
Pub. Date
c1978
Description
Dying, Laura Spelman looks upon her illness as a journey during which she must take account of her life, see the connections between things, and then let go.
8) Silver alert
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"The story of an elderly man who, rather than give up his independence, heads off on a joyride with a new young friend"--
10) Punkzilla
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"Punkzilla" is on a mission to see his older brother "P", before "P" dies of cancer. Still buzzing from his last hit of meth, he embarks on a days-long trip from Portland, Ore. to Memphis, Tenn., writing letters to his family and friends. Along the way, he sees a sketchier side of America and worries if he will make it to see his brother in time.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"A decade ago, Dr. Alan Townsend's family received two unthinkable, catastrophic diagnoses: his 4-year-old daughter and his brilliant and vivacious wife developed unrelated, life-threatening forms of brain cancer. As he witnessed his young daughter fight during the courageous final months of her mother's life, Townsend - a lifelong scientist - was indelibly altered. He began to see scientific inquiry as more than a source of answers to a given problem,...
16) Always jack
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"Jack's life is pretty good -- he has great friends, everyone loves his funny jokes and he's an awesome inventor. But things are getting complicated. Nanna's older and wobblier, and why does his face turn red when he sees his best friend, Anna? And to top it off, Mum and Rob's wedding seems to be taking over the world. Something really scary has also happened to his mum and it's going to take all of Jack's courage to deal with it"--P. [4] of cover....
19) Evening
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
Ann Lord, ill, and only vaguely conscious of what is going on around her, travels back in her mind to the memory of a summer weekend forty years earlier when she fell in love.
20) Miracle
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Amie struggles to find herself through friendship and music in the wake of her father's death.