Seventeen-year-old Greg has 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 a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.
Sadako, hospitalized with leukemia, races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes in an attempt to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.
Handsome troublemaker Landon Carter learns what it means to be a man when he attends the homecoming dance with Jamie Sullivan, a minister's daughter who refuses to play by the "in" crowd's rules, falls in love with her, and learns she carries a tragic secret.
An overview of leukemia that provides information on what causes it, its symptoms and diagnosis, different types of the disease, treatments, and other related topics.
Ten-year-old Dreenie feels both intrigued and frightened when she thinks about the girl nicknamed Bluish, whose leukemia is making her pale and causing her to use a wheelchair.
After sixteen-year-old Raina learns that she is a perfect match for donating bone marrow to a leukemia patient in Virginia, she discovers that the young woman is the sister she never knew she had.
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.
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.
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.
Seventeen-year-old Greg has 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 a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.