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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
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Eleven-year-old Maggie Mayfield is an A-plus student with big plans for herself, but at this moment she is also facing a lot of problems--like starting middle school and figuring out how to help her father who is out of work and in a wheelchair.
3) So lucky
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"[This novel is] the profoundly personal and emphatically political story of a confident woman forced to confront an unnerving new reality when in the space of a single week her wife leaves her and she is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis"--Amazon.com.
4) Living proof
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In 2027, destroying an embryo is considered first-degree murder. Fertility clinics still exist, giving hope and new life to thousands of infertile families, but they have to pass rigorous inspections by the United States Department of Embryo Preservation. Fail an inspection, and you will be prosecuted. Brilliant young doctor Arianna Drake seems to be thriving in the spotlight: her small clinic surpasses every government requirement, and its popularity...
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Fox & Friends meteorologist Janice Dean explains how she purposefully finds the silver lining in every cloud, no matter what challenge she faces. Janice is well-known for the infectious joy she brings to segments on Fox & Friends, no matter the weather. Yet many of her fans know there's more to her story than blizzards that are brewing or National Pancake Day celebrations. In this honest yet optimistic book, Janice reveals obstacles she's faced that...
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Recounts how the author was advised to focus her attention on others as part of her therapy after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, describing the transformative benefits of giving gifts that inspired her to create the online 29-Day Giving Challenge to help others to renew life energy.
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One hot Colorado afternoon, physician-turned-archaeologist Sarah MacLeish unearths the skeleton of an Ancestral Puebloan girl with a deformed leg. Her efforts to understand something of the long-ago life of that girl confront her with the flaws in her own body and her marriage. Sarah struggles with multiple sclerosis, and she is increasingly persuaded that her husband, archaeologist Harry MacLeish, is profoundly discontented in their childless marriage....
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One afternoon, Abi Morgan returned home to find her longtime partner and father to their two kids collapsed on the bathroom floor. Jacob, who had been undergoing treatment for multiple sclerosis, had suddenly experienced a series of seizures and had to be put into a medically induced coma. As he slowly regained consciousness after six months, he made tentative steps to communicate with those around him, and grappled with the host of issues that had...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 4
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Overview: The ailments and conditions that afflict people today can be confusing, disturbing, and painful-both emotionally and physically. The Diseases and Disorders series provides clear, careful explanations that offer readers and researchers insight into what these conditions are, what causes them, how people live with them, and the latest information about treatment and prevention. All volumes in the series include primary and secondary quotations,...
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In this extraordinary work, Ann Boroch, naturopath and certified nutritional consultant, describes how she cured herself of MS using complementary medicine and how she is now healing her patients with the natural, self-help treatment program that she reveals in Healing Multiple Sclerosis. Multiple sclerosis is a progressively crippling autoimmune disease of the central nervous system that afflicts about 500,000 people in the U.S. and three million...
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Amish quilt novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
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As romance blossoms between her and Eli Fischer, Amelia Beiler is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and faces a hard choice, since she will be shunned by her Amish community if she gets the treatment she wants.
15) Nest
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
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On Cape Cod in 1972, eleven-year-old Naomi, known as Chirp for her love of birds, gets help from neighbor Joey as she struggles to cope with her mother's multiple sclerosis and its effect on her father and sister.
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[2011]
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From the publisher. Between 250,000 and 300,000 people have been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS), with an average of 20 new cases diagnosed each week. If you or a loved one suffers from this debilitating condition, this book offers help. Completely revised and updated, 100 Questions and Answers About Multiple Sclerosis, second edition, provides authoritative, practical answers to your questions about this disease. This book explains important...
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