Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.

When her triplet sister Cara is diagnosed with leukemia, eighteen-year-old Stella puts her deams on hold to move home and be with her family, but when she starts spending time with the lead singer of Cara's favorite band, will Stella resent him for taking her attention away from her sister--or will he help Stella find the courage to live her own life?

A romance featuring a troublesome teenager in South Carolina who is changed for the better by the love of a girl. She is the angelic daughter of a local minister and the boy joins her in doing good deeds. But she has a secret which will break his heart.

"Meet Jocelyn! She likes soccer and dinosaurs. She is also a leukemia survivor. Jocelyn is real and so are her experiences. Learn about her life in this illustrated narrative nonfiction picture book for elementary students"--

Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.

Anna ha nacido con un proposito muy especifico. Nacio porque un cientifico manipulo la conexion entre el ovulo de su madre y el esperma de su padre para crear una combinacion especifica de precioso material genetico, con el proposito de salvar a su hermana que padece de leucemia mieloide. Anna es la tabla de salvacion de su hermana Kate, pero no esta dispuesta a seguir donando sus organos para salvar la vida de su hermana. Una serie de planteamientos...

A uniquely funny and moving story about Greg, a high school senior who avoids deep human relationships as a way to safely navigate the social mine field that is teenage life. In fact, he describes his best friend Earl, with whom he makes short-film parodies of classic movies, as being 'more like a co-worker'. But when Greg's mom insists he spends time with Rachel, a girl in his class who has just been diagnosed with cancer, Greg discovers just how...

Seventeen-year-old Livia Stowe travels from England to Princeton, New Jersey, to visit her brother who is studying there and to celebrate her recovery from a year-long struggle with leukemia, and while she is there she writes a blog about her experiences, which include falling in love.

One minute Jim Zervanos was carrying his one-year-old boy to a baseball game, the next, he was in the ER, where for days he lay in limbo, being strangled from the inside. Teams of the best doctors were stumped by his worsening condition, before telling him there was nothing they could do. That Time I Got Cancer: A Love Story is about experiencing joy even in desperate times. It's about the relationships that anchor us, even as they must be entirely...

Spurred by a personal tragedy, Americab2ss foremost documentarian is tackling cancer. Ken Burns examines cancer with a cellular biologistb2ss precision, a historianb2ss perspective, and a biographerb2ss passion. The series artfully weaves three different films in one: a riveting historical documentary; an engrossing and intimate verite film; and a scientific and investigative report.