I can't make you live longer, I can stop you form hurting. But I can give you one wish, as someone did for me.Three letters. Three last wishes.In Mother, Help Me Live, Sarah discovers that her birth mother, whom she's never known, is the one person who may have the bone marrow she needs to survive. When Sarah journeys to find her mother, she learns the real meaning of family.Let Him Live tells the story of Megan's friendship with Donovan, who is hoping to receive a liver transplant. Megan helps make Donovan's wish for his mother and little brother come true, along the way, Megan comes to understand true giving.In Sixteen and Dying, when Anne finds out that a blood transfusion she had seven years ago has made her future uncertain, being given one wish helps her face her pain. She chooses to spend the summer with her father on a ranch out west—and there she meets someone who will change her life.

    She doesn’t understand why she was born with cystic fibrosis. Each day she faces an uncertain future. But the close-knit bond she develops with Eric and Vince gives her the hope to live one day at a time.When an anonymous benefactor promises to grant a single wish with no strings attached, Kara can’t help but wonder if miracles might really happen. Will Kara live to see her dying wish fulfilled?

    Six thousand sheep. John will be alone, except for two horses, four dogs, and all those sheep.John doesn't feel up to the task, but he hopes that if he can accomplish it, he will finally please his father. But John finds that the adage "things just happen to sheep" is true when the river floods, coyotes attack, and one dog's feet get cut. Through it all he must rely on his own resourcefulness, ingenuity, and talents to survive this summer in the haymeadow.

    Their grandparents should know they're too old to play with dolls! Then the twins learn that the dolls are a family legacy from a past generation of twins. But that's not all that's special about the dolls. Before they know it, Jessica and Elizabeth are thrown into the most magical adventure of their lives. And along the way they learn what being twins - and best friends - really means.

    But the only horse Leslie wants is Battlecry, a racer everyone else has given up on as wild and untrainable. Leslie knows Battlecry is something more. Beneath his unpredictable behavior is a spirited horse who would give his all to win races again—for her. Finally Leslie's parents give Battlecry a chance to prove his worth. Leslie doesn't know that by entering Battlecry in a race, she'll risk losing him forever...

    Shannon always shared so much with her father--why wasn't her love enough to make him want to live? As Shannon and her mother try to make sense of his death, they courageously renew their commitment to living in the face of their loss. Despite the hardships life may bring, they know they will forgive and love again.From the Paperback edition.

    

    Together they struggle to create an "absolutely perfect family."

    Reprint. PW. K. LJ.

    Twelve-year-old Clare flees an unhappy home life and tries to survive on the streets of Atlantic City with a small gang of homeless kids, each of whom has his own secret reason for distrusting society.

    Ideal for children who are just beginning to read on their own, this full-length chapter-book version of Mickey's Christmas Carol includes eight pages of full-color stills from the animated movie.

    The story teaches us once again that the pain of coming of age is the purchase price of mature joy.

    This revised and enlarged second edition includes much additional information about the major herbs in the Mayan pharmacopoeia. Their work proves that the rainforest has more value to mankind alive than cut down!

    Addressing every aspect of library service to teens, this book covers customer service, collections, booktalking, programming, spaces, promotion, technology, youth involvement, and more.

    A horse she can take to the horse show. A horse who can win a blue ribbon.But then Middie discovers the terrible truth about Holiday: he's deaf. And very, very scared.Middie's always taken the easy way out. But this time that won't work.She loves Holiday. But will that love be enough?

    But what power can Jocasta‚ Flora and Cilla find to free themselves from Aunt Lureene? Will their malevolent aunt succeed in her evil schemes? And what will the lives of her three orphaned nieces be like if she does succeed? What really killed the girls′ parents? What lies behind the magical power in Lureene′s hands? Are the twins‚ Cain and Abel‚ to be sacrificed by their own mother?. . . And who is the mystery man on the bicycle?Tripswitch is both dark and humorous. It was first published in 1992 by HarperCollins‚ and soon became a popular title. The fast−paced story is about three teenagers who find themselves unwilling victims of a witch′s evil plans. They must learn to harness their own powers and use them unseen by others if they are to have any hope of survival.

    Titles #3 and #4 in the Chalet School series.

    It’s bad enough when they figure out that they’ve been working for a bogus earthquake insurance company, but now it’s also clear that their sleazy boss, Nick Keverian, has left them for dead. Snooping through the wreckage, Mollie discovers that Nick was up to his eyeballs in crime—and everyone who worked for him was part of his schemes. She and her friends swear to get revenge—if they make it out alive. But first they must confront dangerous aftershocks and possible death by starvation. Will Mollie and her friends escape? If they do, and Nick Keverian finds out about it, can they expose his scam before one of them becomes the first to die?

    Pregnant after a rape and cruelly rejected by her preacher father, seventeen-year-old Lucy runs away to Ocean City, where she is taken in by Jake, an aspiring writer.

    When Jaime mysteriously disappears, Mollie Fox and Jaime's girlfriend, Roberta, travel to Jaime's grandmother's house in Lost Camp, California, where a motorcycle gang is running rampant.

    Now, with the death of her mistress, there is a chance she will be given her freedom, and for the first time Harriet feels hopeful. But hoping can be dangerous, because disappointment is devastating. Harriet has one last hope, though: escape to the North. And as she faces numerous ordeals, this hope gives her the strength she needs to survive.