Chronicles the teen scientist's development of an early detection test for pancreatic, ovarian, and lung cancer, and recounts his personal story of overcoming depression and homophobic bullying.

When Halle and her mother both come down with tuberculosis, they are shunned—and then they are sent to a hospital far from home, far from family, far from the world. Tucked away in the woods of upstate New York, the hospital is a closed and quiet place. Free of her worried and difficult father for the first time in her life, she slowly discovers joy, family, and the healing power of honey on the children's ward, where the girls on the floor become...