Catrina and her family have moved to the coast of Northern California for the sake of her little sister, Maya, who has cystic fibrosis--and Cat is even less happy about the move when she is told that her new town is inhabited by ghosts, and Maya sets her heart on meeting one.

The unexpected appearance of a dolphin in her backyard creek helps a sixth-grader with cystic fibrosis learn to write her own story.

From award-winning author Beth Vrabel comes a powerfully moving story about a magical friendship, coping with disability, and the pains of growing up and growing apart. Twelve-year-old Caleb is shorter, frailer, and more protected than most kids his age. That's because he has cystic fibrosis, a diagnosis meaning lungs that fill with mucus and a shortened lifespan. Caleb tries not to let his disorder define him, but it can be hard with an overprotective...

"Few writers can move and captivate readers as Belva Plain can. In Daybreak, perhaps her best and boldest work yet, she creates a living, breathing portrait of two families joined by a devastating childhood illness, yet divided by the politics of hatred and by the sons they love."--BOOK JACKET. "In a doctor's office, a man and a woman sit stunned as the doctor speaks: Blood tests show without a shadow of a doubt that the son they love so dearly, and...

"L'Inconnue is a young woman lost in turbulent Paris at the turn of the nineteenth century. Amund is a Norwegian toymaker and father to two young children in the 1950s. Anouk is a contemporary Canadian suffering from cystic fibrosis, a medical condition that leaves her constantly fighting for air, swimming through the boundary between life and death as she awaits a lung transplant that could save her life. The way their stories intersect takes us...

The inspiring story of one little girl's bravery in the face of an unrelenting disease In 1971 a girl named Alex was born with cystic fibrosis, a degenerative genetic lung disease. Although health-care innovations have improved the life span of CF patients tremendously over the last four decades, the illness remains fatal. Given only two years to live by her doctors, the imaginative, excitable, and curious little girl battled through painful and frustrating...

When an anonymous benefactor promises to grant a single wish, sixteen-year-old Kara Fischer, born with cystic fibrosis, can't help but wonder if miracles might really happen.

Discusses the history, current treatments, and how scientists are searching for a cure on the genetic disease Cystic Fibrosis.

Breathing is precious. Most people take breathing for granted and never think about the process at all, or what it would be like to struggle for each breath every minute of every day for 25 years.During the first 25 years of her life, Laura J. Scott Ferris struggled for breath. The simple joy of breathing eluded her. She was born with Cystic Fibrosis and doctors did not expect her to live beyond the age of five. Through the power of prayer, faith,...

In a run-down New Orleans suburb, an overprotected, bored teenager with cystic fibrosis becomes involved in a dangerous game when a mysterious group called the Society invites her to complete a few dares for the chance of winning big money to help pay for her costly medication and future college expenses.