Having been hospitalized for a long time, a young girl finds herself surrounded by people who cannot understand the strangeness of her illness. After her friend visits her, she must accept that her relationships may never be the same, and that her expectations that tether her to a life outside of the hospital may be very different from the disappointing reality.

After finding out that her toddler has cancer, a fiction writer and her husband living in the American Midwest do everything they can to save their baby, including giving up her artistic integrity in order to pay for the medical bills.

When his father loses his job in 1970s Cape Canaveral, a boy finds himself torn between an inhospitable home life and a burgeoning friendship with the terminally-ill girl down the street.

Set in 1914 Detroit, a young man with a life threatening condition is forced to live a mundane life protected from the outside world. When a new friend begins showing him the joys life has to offer, he is forced to decide how he wants to live.

While recovering from an illness, a little girl makes an enchanting discovery.

When a deadly infection strikes the world, a girl and her family must make and live through difficult choices.

When a prideful ten-year-old boy visits the ski slopes with his mother and brother, who has cancer, he gets himself into trouble after going off on his own and ignoring his family’s warnings.

A young boy's stay in the hospital takes a dramatic turn when an unexpected patient arrives.

Daughter Helen reflects on her pained childhood and strained adult life while on a train in Germany, where she is traveling to Munich with her sick mother to get an unconventional treatment for cancer.

In a town full of people with tuberculosis, the healthy young daughter of a nurse is teased by two wealthy but frail sisters. When she is caught lying about the cause of her father's death, the girl must figure out how to be proud of who she is.