Everything you need to understand or teach What Happened to Lani Garver by Carol Plum-Ucci.
What Happened to Lani Garver is the story of the unlikely friendship between a seventeen-year-old leukemia survivor and the androgynous new kid who moves to town and who just might be a "floating angel."
At the opening of the novel, Claire McKenzie is happy in her life. She's been in leukemia remission for a few years, and has managed to keep her past illness a secret from many of her schoolmates...