[Warning: This review is a bit spoilery. Most of the summary information is revealed in the book's oficial synopsis, but those sensitive to such things should stay away or read with caution.] Rosie and Holly are born in the same hospital on the same night. One baby is born sick, on the brink of death, [...]

Tags: family problems, identity, illness, secrets, switched at birth
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Payton is the kind of girl who has a soft spot for office supplies and a serious need for organization. She strives for order and perfection on the basketball court, at school, and at home. However, when Payton finds out that her father has been diagnosed with MS–and she’s the only family member who hasn’t [...]

Tags: family life, fathers and daughters, high schools, humor, illness, romance, sports, therapy
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Fifteen-year-old Grace Manning is a candy striper in a nursing home, and Mr. Sands is the one patient who makes the job bearable. He keeps up with her sarcasm, teaches her to play poker . . . and one day cheerfully asks her to help him die. At first Grace says no way, but as [...]

Tags: death, illness, interpersonal relations, suicide
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Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer, a place away from the beach house, away from Susannah, and most importantly, away from Jeremiah and Conrad. They are the boys that Belly [...]

Tags: beach, coming of age, friendship, illness, interpersonal relations, romance, summer
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If high school were a fairy-tale kingdom, Connelly Sternin would be Rapunzel, locked not in a tower by a wicked witch but in a high-rise apartment building by the SATs and college applications—and by the secrets she keeps. Connelly’s few friends think that her parents are divorced—but they’re not. Connelly’s father died when she was [...]

Tags: fairy tales, friendship, high schools, illness, secrets
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