Because of her sensitive immune system, her protective parents don't want her to rush into too many activities and Norah pushes back, wanting to join after school activities with her friends. Norah Levy is retuning to seventh grade after spending two years in treatment for leukemia. Wonderful writing makes this a book not just for baseball fans. His adopted father moves a lot, and when they move to a new town with a demoralized baseball team embroiled in scandal, Jeremiah becomes the motivating coach they need to lift them up. Jeremiah's medical challenge is that he has a weak heart which keeps him on the sidelines. (Note: book covers and titles are affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Some of the books focus on the perspective of the patient but others narrate the experience of those whose lives are affected when a loved one gets ill.
I looked for books to cover a wide range of medical conditions, from temporary to chronic but manageable to terminal illnesses. A gallant account, in very human terms.With this list of children's books with characters who have medical challenges, I have chosen to focus on middle grade novels.
Killilea spent years in crusading for founding, and fund-raising, for the Cerebral Palsy Association which would bring help and hope for others. And for the 22,000 children in New York State alone- of which only one in a hundred received care, Mrs. Killilea worked with Karen at home, and each advance, from sitting alone to walking on crutches to finally- writing, brings its triumph in the face of recoil so often faced in public situations, the years of painful struggle and painful appliances, as well as the loneliness of a childhood cut off from her contemporaries through the lack of schooling- for children such as these- as well as treatment. Unable to afford the services of trained therapists- even were there any available in her community, Mr. Killilea continued in her search for an alternative, found it finally in a doctor with some knowledge of spastic paralysis and its treatment. From later opinions (""take your child to an institution- and leave her there"") which were founded in professional ignorance of cerebral palsy and which affirmed that Karen's limitations were not only physical- but also mental, Mrs. A warm and winning and spirited account of a young mother's attempt to overcome the liabilities of cerebral palsy, and to refute the first medical verdict that her little girl would have ""an existence- but no life"".
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