When Amelia Bedelia wakes up with a fever, she passes the time learning about weather, resting, and eating some chicken soup.

A little boy is curious about all the places his cold might go after it leaves him.

Madeline, smallest and naughtiest of the twelve little charges of Miss Clavel, wakes up one night with an attack of appendicitis.

In Wisconsin, fourth-grader Ida B spends happy hours being home-schooled and playing in her family's apple orchard, until her mother begins treatment for breast cancer and her parents must sell part of the orchard and send her to public school.

Certain that no one has even been as sick as he is, Bear resists Mouse's efforts to cheer him and cure his cold.

Little Bear learns that if he becomes sick, Mama Bear will nurse him, and a variety of zoo animals, back to health.

When Cleo has a bout of carsickness on her way to a birthday swimming party, she's terribly embarrassed, but her friend's mother helps her to forget the incident by encouraging Cleo to show off her talent for diving.

What's the best recipe for feeling better when you're under the weather? Chicken broth? Staying in bed? A hot cloth? Little Bear tries them all but finds out that having family and friends around is the best medicine.

It's senior year, and Chamomile Myles has whiplash from traveling between her two universes: school (the relentless countdown to prom, torturous college applications, and the mindless march toward an uncertain future) and home, where she wrestles a slow, bitter battle with her father's terminal illness. Enter Brendan, a man-bun-and tutu-wearing hospital volunteer with a penchant for absurdity, who strides boldly between her worlds--and helps her open...

Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life.