Books, Teens, Series, One Last Wish

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Lurlene McDaniel
One Last Wish: Three Novels (Mother, Help Me Live / Let Him Live / Sixteen and Dying)
by Laurel Leaf (Mass Market Paperback) (Release Date: 1998-10-13)

You don't know me, but I know about you.... 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.

Lurlene Mcdaniel
The Legacy: Making Wishes Come True (One Last Wish)
by Laurel Leaf (Mass Market Paperback) (Release Date: 1993-03-01)

Retracing the history of the One Last Wish foundation, this inspirational novel introduces readers to JWC, her battle to survive, her struggles with family, and her desire to leave something lasting behind.

Lurlene Mcdaniel
Reach for Tomorrow (One Last Wish)
by Laurel Leaf (Mass Market Paperback) (Release Date: 1999-07-13)

Katie O'Roark is thrilled to learn that Jenny House is being rebuilt. After the fire last year, Katie thought she could never return to the camp, where she spent the summers with teens like her who faced medical odds stacked against them. But thanks to Richard Holloway's efforts, Katie and her longtime friends Lacey and Chelsea will work as counselors once again. They'll be joined by Megan, Morgan, and Eric, who are newcomers to Jenny House but who have experienced the generosity of One Last Wish Foundation.It's not until Katie arrives at camp that she discovers that Josh Martel, her former boyfriend, is also a counselor. Being near Josh again brings back a flood of old emotions for Katie. And when Josh confronts unexpected adversity, Katie knows she has to work out her feelings for him. Through the heart transplant she underwent years ago, Katie miraculously received a gift of new life. Now she must discover how to make the most of that precious gift and choose her future.

Lurlene McDaniel
All the Days of Her Life (One Last Wish)
by Laurel Leaf (Mass Market Paperback) (Release Date: 1994-08-01)

Out of control - that's how Lacey Duval feels in almost every aspect of her life. There's nothing she can do about her parents divorce, there's nothing she can do about the death of her young friend, there's nothing she can do about having diabetes - that's what Lacey believes.After a special summer at Jenny House, Lacey is determined to put her problems behind her. When she returns to high school, she is driven to become a part of the in crowd and win the attention of gorgeous Todd Larson. But Lacey thinks fitting in means losing weight and hiding her diabetes. She starts skipping meals and experimenting with her medication - sometimes ignoring it all together.Her friends from the summer caution her to face her problems before catastrophe strikes. Is it too late to stop the destructive process Lacey has set in motion?

Lurlene Mcdaniel
Sixteen and Dying (One Last Wish)
by Laurel Leaf (Paperback) (Release Date: 1992-10-01)

HIV positive after a blood transfusion seven years before, Anne Wingate accepts money from an anonymous benefactor and journeys out west, where she falls for local boy Morgan and must face telling him about her illness.

Lurlene Mcdaniel
She Died Too Young (One Last Wish)
by Laurel Leaf (Paperback) (Release Date: 1994-02-01)

Chelsea James and Katie O'Roark met at Jenny House and spent a wonderful summer together.Now Chelsea and her mother are staying with Katie as Chelsea awaits news concerning a heart transplant. While waiting for a compatible donor, Chelsea meets Jillian, a girl who's funny and kind. Jillian is also waiting. She needs a heart-lung transplant. The two girls become fast friends. When Chelsea meets Jillian's brother, he awakens feelings in Chelsea she's never known before. However, as her medical situation grows desperate, Chelsea finds herself in a contest for her life against her very best friend.Is it fair that there's only a chance for one of them to survive?

Lurlene Mcdaniel
Please Don't Die (One Last Wish)
by Laurel Leaf (Paperback) (Release Date: 1993-10-01)

When Katie O'Roark receives an invitation from the One Last Wish Foundation to spend the summer at Jenny House, she eagerly says yes. Katie is ever grateful to the anonymous "JWC," the person who gave her the gift that allowed her to receive a heart transplant. Now Katie is asked to help others who, like herself, are facing medical odds against them.Being a "Big Sister" to Amanda, an eleven-year-old victim of leukemia; Chelsea, a thirteen-year-old candidate for a heart transplant; and Lacey, a fifeen-year-old diabetic who refuses to face her problems, is a challenge. As the summer progresses, the girls form a bond of friendship as they behave "just like healthy kids."When a crisis occurs and one of the girls does not get to fulfill her dreams, the friends are devastated. The girls vow to gather each summer, so long as one of them is alive, in honor of their dreams and of a friendship strong enough to endure beyond this life.

Lurlene Mcdaniel
A Time to Die (One Last Wish)
by Laurel Leaf (Paperback) (Release Date: 1992-04-01)

When an anonymous benefactor promises to grant her a single wish, sixteen-year-old Kara Fischer, a girl with cystic fibrosis who has recently found friends in Eric and Vince, contemplates what her wish will be.

Lurlene Mcdaniel
Someone Dies, Someone Lives (One Last Wish)
by Laurel Leaf (Paperback) (Release Date: 1992-08-01)

Nostalgic about her track star days, heart patient Katie O'Roark receives an anonymous money gift that could pay for the transplant surgery and help her achieve her goal of Olympic glory.

Lurlene Mcdaniel
A Season for Goodbye (One Last Wish)
by Laurel Leaf (Mass Market Paperback) (Release Date: 1995-03-01)

Together again. It's been a year since Katie O'Roark, Chelsea James, and Lacey Duval shared a special summer at Jenny House. The girls have each spent the year struggling to fit into the world of the healthy. Now they're back, this time as "big sisters" to a new group of girls who also face life-threatening illnesses.But even as the friends strive to help their "little sisters" face the future together, they must separately confront their own expectations. Katie must decide between an old flame and an exciting scholarship far from home. Chelsea must overcome her fear of romance. And Lacey must convince the boy that she loves that the feelings for him can be trusted.When tragedy strikes Jenny House, each of the girls knows that things can never be the same again. Will Lacey, Chelsea, and Katie find a way to carry on the legacy of the Jenny House? Can their special friendship endure when they go their separate ways?

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