Holly, accompanied by her best friend Andie, visits her father in California where she is torn between covering for Andie's misbehavior and telling the truth.
Confined to a tuberculosis ward in Germany in the early 1950s, a group of children deal with life, death, and plans to escape while listening to the fantastic stories of a mysterious patient, the "Empress of China.".
A deadly, flu-like epidemic and a plague of flesh-eating creatures threaten the lives of the children at Perdido Beach while Sam, Astrid, Caine, and Diana each struggle with doubts and uncertainties.
Digger is not feeling well but after his sister, Daisy, convinces him to go see a doctor she must still persuade him to be brave by getting her own examination.
Judy is excited about becoming a doctor, especially when Class 3T starts a new unit on the human body, but she learns more about being a patient when she catches tonsillitis from her little brother, Stink.
An extraordinary stomachache is cured when a doctor removes a large number of strange objects from the victim's stomach. Includes instructions for performing the story as a shadow play.
After a car accident leaves her brain-dead, Jessica tries to prevent her parents from donating her organs and tissues, but then follows the lives of four fellow teens who are able to survive because she did not.
--y sus planes para potenciar la diversion, evitar desastres y (posiblemente) salvar el mundo
Hannigan, Katherine
2005
In Wisconsin, fourth-grader Ida B spends happy hours being home-schooled and playing in her family's apple orchard, until her mother begins treatment for breast cancer and her parents must sell part of the orchard and send her to public school.
