When Squish, a meek amoeba who loves the comic book exploits of his favorite hero, "Super Amoeba," starts feeling sick, he worries he has caught a deadly illness.

Having spent several years in and out of hospitals for a life-threatening illness, pragmatic sixteen-year-old Cam is relocated by her miracle-seeking mother to a town in Maine known for its mystical healing qualities.

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.

"Four sisters rely on each other--and a bit of mysterious magic--to cope with their mother's illness"--

When Sophie Mouse's brother, Winston, gets sick, she starts to envy all the attention he is getting, but when she gets sick herself, she regrets ever wishing this on herself.

"Seventeen-year-old Rose Levenson must decide whether or not she wants to take the test to find out if she has Huntington's disease, the degenerative disease that is slowly killing her mother"--

"Welcome to Lockwood, proud home of The Fairway Players, who, under the creative control of Martin Hayward, the owner of the local country club, are putting on a production of Arthur Miller's "All My Sons." The star, as always: Martin's wife, Helen, the only person in the troupe with any real acting talent. But this is not a production like any other: just as rehearsals get under way, tragedy strikes: Poppy Reswick, Martin and Helen's beloved granddaughter,...