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Eleven-year-old Georgie is still adjusting to leaving Atlanta for a small town, having a stepfather, and being unable to get close to her stepsister when her six-year-old sister, Peaches, suddenly becomes very ill.

"Isabel has one rule: no dating. It's easier-it's safer-it'sbetter-for the other person. She's got issues. She's got secrets. She's got rheumatoid arthritis. But then she meets another sick kid. He's got a chronic illness Isabel's never heard of, something she can't even pronounce. He understandswhat it means to be sick. He understands her more than her healthy friends. He understands her more than her own father, who's a doctor. He's gorgeous, fun, and foul-mouthed. And totally into her. Isabel has one rule: no dating. It's complicated-it's dangerous-it's never felt better-to consider breaking that rule for him"--Dust jacket.

Eighteen-year-old Jewish twin sisters Adina and Tovah are complete opposites. Adina is a viola prodigy, while Tovah is a brilliant student pursuing her dream of going to medical school to be a surgeon. But both anxiously await the results of their genetic test that determines whether they inherited their mother's Huntington's disease. When the results come back, one twin is negative for the disease, the other is positive. The news pushes the twins to come to terms with their mother's illness, their faith, the future, and their relationship with each other.

After her journalist-father's mysterious death in 2008, fifteen-year-old Shamiso must leave England for boarding school in Zimbabwe, where she and Tanyaradzwa, who is fighting cancer, form an unexpected friendship.

Illustrations and easy-to-read, rhyming text convey advice about what to do when a friend becomes very sick.

When her little sister, Akeer, becomes sick when they are returning home from the water hole, Nya must carry her and the water back to their village, one step at a time.

Chad, hoping to work out his frustrations and his anger by taking a summer job as a dunk tank Bozo on the boardwalk at the New Jersey shore, comes to a better understanding of himself and the uses of humor as he undergoes training in the fine art of insults.

Nanny goat, sick in bed from a boating mishap, is visited by her animal friends with gifts to cheer her, after which she returns the favor by taking them out on her new boat.

Llama Llama's mother takes good care of him when he has to stay home from school because he is sick, but when Mama Llama begins to feel sick, too, Llama Llama knows how to take care of her.