4.8/5 All the Days of Her Life ­ McDaniel, Lurlene. When Lacy faces returning to high school, she is driven to fit in with the in-crowd. She thinks fitting in means losing weight and hiding her diabetes.

4.6/6 Angel of Mercy ­ McDaniel, Lurlene. Eighteen-year-old Heather travels as a volunteer to Africa, where she provides direly needed medical help in Kenya and Uganda and hopes to act as God's hands on Earth.

4.7/5 Angels Watching Over Me ­ McDaniel, Lurlene. When Leah receives frightening information about her medical condition, her new friends, an Amish family she meets during her hospital stay, show her that miracles can happen.

4.1/3 Beat the Turtle Drum ­ Greene, Constance. A sensitive and realistic story that examines one family's handling of what may well be the ultimate family crisis--the death of one of the children.

5.7/7 Belle Prater's Boy ­ White, Ruth. When Woodrow's mother suddenly disappears, he moves to his grandparents' home in a small Virginia town where he befriends his cousin and together they find the strength to face the terrible losses and fears in their lives.

5.7/7 Bloomability ­ Creech, Sharon. When her aunt and uncle take her from New Mexico to Lugano, Switzerland, to attend an international school, thirteen-year-old Dinnie discovers an expanding world and her place in it.

4.6/5 Bridge to Terabithia ­ Paterson, Katherine.3.8/5 The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm.

3.8/5 Crazy Lady ­ Conly, Jane. After his mother's death, Vernon finds solace in his growing relationship with neighborhood outcasts, an alcoholic and her retarded son.

4.0/3 Defiance ­ Hobbs, Valerie. While vacationing in the country, eleven-year-old Toby, a cancer patient, learns some important lessons about living and dying from an elderly poet and her cow.

5.0/11 Dicey's Song ­ Voigt, Cynthia. Now that the four abandoned Tillerman children are settled in with their grandmother, Dicey finds that their new beginnings require love, trust, humor and courage.

5.9/8 Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie ­ Sonnenblick, Jordan. When his younger brother is diagnosed with leukemia, thirteen-year-old Steven tries to deal with his complicated emotions, his school life, and his desire to support his family.

5.5/10 Fat Chance ­ Newman, Lealea. In a series of diary entries, thirteen-year-old Judi recounts her struggles to lose weight, hide her bulimia from her mother, find a boyfriend, and decide on a profession.

4.6/5 Flip-Flop Girl ­ Paterson, Katherine. Vinnie Matthews needs a real lifesaver - one that will bring her father back to life and let her family go home. Living with Grandma means having to be responsible for her little brother. Then Vinnie meets Lupe - who might just be the friend she needs.

4.5/5 For Better, For Worse, Forever ­ McDaniel, Lurlene. After Mark dies April feel alone. When Brandon comes into her live they find they both have a lot in common. Their closeness helps them both to heal, but April cannot tell Brandon about her illness. When April's medical problems suddenly return, she must decide what to tell Brandon. Can the strength of the love she's felt before help her now?

5.5/5 Freak the Mighty ­ Philbrick, Rodman. At the beginning of eighth grade, learning disabled Max and his new friend Freak, whose birth defect has affected his body but not his brilliant mind, find that when they combine forces they make a powerful team.

4.9/8 Garden of Angels ­ McDaniel, Lurlene. In Conners, Georgia, 1974, fourteen-year-old Darcy tries to deal with her mother's battle with breast cancer, as she also faces new feelings for an outcast senior at her school and learns that the war in Vietnam is more than a school project.

3.8/4 Girl Death Left Behind ­ McDaniel, Lurlene. Numb with grief when an accident kills her entire family, fourteen-year-old Beth suddenly finds herself living with her spoiled cousin Terri and trying to make friends at a new school.

4.4/3 I Want to Live ­ McDaniel, Lurlene. Dawn has just turned fourteen. Her cancer has been in remission for almost a year, and life seems almost normal. When she returns from camp, she is suddenly tired all the time.

4.3/4 I'll Be Seeing You ­ McDaniel, Lurlene. Carley Mattea never expected to meet a boy as handsome as Kyle Westin certainly not in the hospital. Seventeen-year-old kyle was blinded when a chemistry experiment exploded. His doctors don't know if he'll get his vision back, and he's deeply depressed. Sixteen-year-old Carley understands how miserable it is to be in the hospital. She's had plenty of experience. Soon Carley and Kyle become good friends. But Carley is keeping a secret from Kyle. She knows that boys like girls who are pretty and she is not. Scarred by a facial deformity, she has, over the years, used her sense of humor to cope. But now that she's become so close to Kyle, she's worried that once his bandages are removed, and he sees her, it will be the end of their relationship. Carley wants the best for Kyle. But what will that mean for her?

5.5/9 Ironman ­ Crutcher, Chris. Bo gets kicked off the football team and sent to a before-school Anger Management group. There he meets and falls in love with Shelley, a future American Gladiator.

3.9/4 Julia's Kitchen ­ Ferber, Brenda. When her mother and younger sister are killed in a house fire, eleven-year-old Cara struggles to find a way to deal with her emotions and to reach out to her grieving father.

4.4/5 Kissing Doorknobs ­ Hesser, Terry. When Tara was eleven years old, she heard the phrase that changed her life: step on a crack, break your mother's back. . . And before she knew what was happening, she was counting the cracks in the sidewalk everywhere she went, in constant fear of breaking her mother's back. If she missed one crack or lost count, she had to go home and start all over again. Over time, her problems only got worse. The author has written a funny, compelling and sensitive story about a teenage girl afflicted with obsessive-compulsive disorder and the way it affects her relationships with friends and family.

5.0/5 Let Him Live ­ McDaniel, Lurlene. A candy striper helps a 17-year-old boy deal with his uncertain future as he awaits a liver transplant. Together, they use his "One Last Wish" money to build a center for terminally ill kids.

4.3/6 Lifted Up By Angels ­ McDaniel, Lurlene. This is the inspirational story of Leah Hall and her friendship with the Amish family she met while in the hospital for cancer treatment.

4.5/5 P. S. Longer Letter Later ­ Danziger, Paula. Elizabeth and Tara*Starr are totally different, but they are best friends. Tara*Starr moves away, and the two girls must continue their friendship through letters. As time goes on the friendship begins to change. Will they be able to stay best friends?

4.7/5 Maniac McGee ­ Spinelli, Jerry. Maniac Magee was a legend. Kids were always talking about how fast he could run; how high he could jump; how no knot would stay knotted once he began to untie it. But the thing Maniac Magee was best known for is what he did for the kids from the black East End and those from the white West end of town.

4.5/2 Mick Harte Was Here ­ Park, Barbara. Thirteen-year-old Phoebe recalls her younger brother Mick and his death in a bicycle accident.

5.3/3 Missing May ­ Rylant, Cynthia. After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living.

4.8/5 Mother, Help Me Live ­ McDaniel, Lurlene. Sarah McGreggor has leukemia and needs a bone marrow transplant. It is at this critical moment that Sarah learns she was adopted. When the "One Last Wish" check arrives, Sarah decides to search for her birth mother--and a chance for life.

4.7/2 On My Honor ­ Bauer, Marion. A twelve-year-old boy must learn to live with his fear and grief when his swimming partner drowns.

4.4/5 One Last Wish: Reach for Tomorrow ­ McDaniel, Lurlene. Katie is thrilled to learn that Jenny House is being rebuilt. After the fire last year, she shought she could never return to th e camp for medically-challenged teens. Luckily, she and her friends will work as counselors again. When she arrives, she finds out that Josh, her former boyfriend, will be a counselor as well. This brings back unexpected feelings in her. She will have to resolve her feelings and decide how to choose her future

4.1/4 Out of Order ­ Hicks, Betty. Four youngsters, ages nine to fifteen, narrate one side of the story of their newly blended family's adjustment, interwoven with grief and loss.

5.1/3 Radiance Descending ­ Fox, Paula. Paul is so angry that his younger brother, Jacob, has Down's syndrome that he's embarrassed to be near him He can't see that Jake idolizes him. Paul thinks that Jake gets all the attention in the family, and he has a hard time loving someone who is so clumsy and strange looking. People outside the family welcome Jake and appreciate his kindness. Through a series of surprising events, Paul begins to wonder whether Jacob is indeed a person worth loving.

4.5/6 Remembering the Good Times ­ Peck, Richard. Three best friends seem to need no others, until one makes a change that leaves the other two wondering how well they knew each other in the first place.

3.8/6 Say Goodnight, Gracie ­ Deavers, Julie. When a car accident kills her best friend Jimmy, with whom she has shared everything from childhood escapades to breaking into the professional theater scene in Chicago, seventeen-year-old Morgan must find her own way of coping with his death.

4.4/5 A Season for Goodbye ­ McDaniel, Lurlene. Three girls help others with life-threatening illnesses.

4.7/5 Sixteen and Dying ­ McDaniel, Lurlene. Anne is HIV positive. Seven years earlier, before blood screening was required, she received a transfusion to save her life, and the blood was tainted. Now Anne must deal with the inevitable progression of her condition. When an anonymous benefactor promises to grant a single wish with no strings attached, Anne decides to spend the summer on a ranch out west and live as normally as possible. The summer is wonderful, especially after she meets Morgan. But, she hasn't told Morgan about her condition, and when her health begins to deteriorate, she suddenly leaves the ranch. Is there time for Morgan and Anne to meet again?

4.4/4 Something Invisible ­ Parkinson, Siobhan. With a new baby sister and a stepfather, the life of eleven-year-old Jake is full of change, but nothing prepares him for his relationship with an enigmatic girl, her large family, and the tragedy that strikes them all.

4.8/5 Somewhere Between Life and Death ­ McDaniel, Lurlene. he party was supposed to be a celebration for the cast of the school play. For sisters Amy and Erin the night turns into a nightmarish tragedy. Erin and her family must find the courage to accept that Amy's life is hanging in the balance. Will Amy survive? How will her family cope with this ordeal?

4.2/6 Starry, Starry Night ­ McDaniel, Lurlene. This book contains three short stories. They deal with three different women who are struggling to accept life-changing issues.

5.2/9 Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes ­ Crutcher, Chris. An obese boy and a disfigured girl suffer the emotional scars of years of mockery at the hands of their peers. They share a hard-boiled view of the world until events in their senior year hurl them in very different directions. A story about a friendship with staying power, written with pathos and pointed humor.

4.9/4 Summer of the Swans ­ Byars, Betsy. A teen-age girl gains new insight into herself and her family when her mentally handicapped brother gets lost.

5.3/5 Summer to Die ­ Lowry, Lois. A moving and perceptive novel, as thirteen-year-old Meg relates the story of her older sister's death from leukemia.

4.0/3 Sun & Spoon ­ Henkes, Kevin. After the death of his grandmother, ten-year-old Spoon tries to find the perfect artifact to preserve his memories of her.

4.6/6 Tallahassee Higgins ­ Hahn, Mary Downing. When a twelve-year-old who has lived for fun goes to live with her aunt, she must learn to live by the rules.

4.3/5 Telling Christina Goodbye ­ McDaniel, Lurlene. Four teens are involved in a car accident which leaves one of them dead. Those left behind must learn that it will take time for their scars--both visible and invisible--to heal. And they must find the courage to move on with their lives.

4.5/5 Till Death Do Us Part ­ McDaniel, Lurlene. "A change is coming," April Lancaster's fortune cookie reads. "Be prepared." But how could she be prepared for the news that she has an inoperable brain tumor? April's life will never be the same. The she meets handsome Mark Gianni. Mark has cystic fibrosis, but he also has a passion for life. . .and for April. He shows April how to keep on living in the face of life-threatening ilness. And when he asks April to marry him, she's happier than she's ever been. Everyone is against their marriage. But April and Mark know their love is strong enough to survive anything. . . even death.

4.3/5 Time Capsule ­ McDaniel, Lurlene. Reminded of what life was once like by the opening of a first-grade time capsule, seventeen-year-old Alexis now faces the pressures of senior year in high school, her parents' total focus on work, and the recurrence of her twin brother's leukemia.

5.3/10 Time for Dancing ­ Hurwin, Davida. Seventeen-year-old best friends Samantha and Juliana tell their stories in alternating chapters after Juliana is diagnosed with cancer.

4.9/4 To Live Again ­ McDaniel, Lurlene. Seventeen-year-old Dawn Rochelle is three years into remission from leukemia. Now a high school senior, she suffers another medical crisis that causes partial paralysis. The doctors are optimistic, but she gives in to despair. The effects of paralysis can't be hidden. Will she be able to find the strength to live again?

4.3/5 Unfinished Dreams ­ Zalben, Jane B. Jason, a nine-year-old Jewish boy, pursues his dream of becoming a great violinist, even as he deals with disappointments and the deaths of loved ones.

4.0/5 Until Angels Close My Eyes ­ McDaniel, Lurlene. Leah thinks her battle with cancer is over, but her stepfather reveals he has been in remission but is now ill again. She turns to her beloved Amish friend, Ethan, to help her overcome her anger and fear, while he has his own struggles to overcome.

4.9/9 Walk Two Moons ­ Creech, Sharon. Thirteen-year-old Salamanca Tree Hiddle's mother has disappeared. While tracing her steps on a car trip from Ohio to Idaho with her grandparents, Salamanca tells a story to pass the time about a friend named Phoebe Winterbottom whose mother vanished and who received secret messages after her disappearance. One of them read, "Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins." Despite her father's warning that she is "fishing in the air," Salamanca hopes to bring her home. By drawing strength from her Native American ancestry, she is able to face the truth about her mother.

4.2/5 Wenny Has Wings ­ Carey, Janey Lee. Having had a near-death experience in the accident that killed his younger sister, eleven-year-old Will tries to cope with the situation by writing her letters.