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Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Discusses everything from polio's early history and the demographics of the illness to research, the vaccines developed by Salk and Sabin, and the facts about the disease as it exists today. Franklin Roosevelt is part of the story, as is Olympic runner Wilma Rudolph
22) The wonder kid
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In the summer of 1954, eleven-year-old Jesse James MacLean contracts polio, but with a friend's help and despite his unsympathetic father, he finds ways to prove that his spirit is still strong.
23) Polio
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Recounts the history and effects of poliomyelitis, describes how the disease spreads, and offers information about prevention, vaccine types, and the possibilty of eradication.
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"Minda Dentler made history when she became the first female wheelchair athlete to complete the world's toughest triathlon, using only her arms to finish a 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike ride, and 26.2 mile marathon. But the journey there wasn't easy. Minda was paralyzed as an infant in India after contracting polio, and was left in the care of an orphanage. After she was adopted by an American family and moved to Washington, she underwent surgeries...
32) Blue
Author
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When teenager Ann Fay takes over as "man of the house" for her absent soldier father, she struggles to keep the family and herself together in the face of personal tragedy and the 1940s polio epidemic in North Carolina.
34) Odd & true
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Told from separate viewpoints, Odette returns in 1909 after a two-year absence, promising to rescue her disabled sister, Tru, from the monsters they were taught to believe in.
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
"In 1959, seventeen-year-old Gary Presley was standing in line, wearing his favorite cowboy boots and waiting for his final inoculation of Salk vaccine. Seven days later, a bad headache caused him to skip basketball practice, tell his dad that he was too ill to feed the calves, and walk from barn to bed with shaky, dizzying steps. He never walked again. By the next day, burning with the fever of polio, he was fastened into the claustrophobic cocoon...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
The Master's Muse is an exquisite, deeply affecting novel about the love affair between two artistic legends: George Balanchine, widely considered the Shakespeare of dance, and his wife and muse, Tanny Le Clercq. A talented young ballerina whose dreams were coming true, Tanny was married to the love of her life, George Balanchine. She danced the best roles, and was featured in fashion magazines and television dramas. She socialized with renowned artists...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Formats
Description
"She gave up everything - and changed the world. A riveting novel based on the true story of the woman who stopped a pandemic, from the bestselling author of Mrs. Poe. In 1940s and '50s America, polio is as dreaded as the atomic bomb. No one's life is untouched by this disease that kills or paralyzes its victims, particularly children. Outbreaks of the virus across the country regularly put American cities in lockdown. Some of the world's best minds...
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
"Based on over a decade of research, involving more than 600 interviews and analysis of more than 4,000 scientific texts, The River examines the myriad theories about the origin of the AIDS epidemic - and reaches a stunning and startling conclusion." "Since the early nineties, serious HIV researchers have been aware that the most common variant of HIV - human immunodeficiency virus - is the direct descendant of an SIV - simian immunodeficiency virus...
39) Breathe
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
The inspiring true love story of Robin and Diana Cavendish, an adventurous couple who refuse to give up in the face of a devastating disease. Their heartwarming celebration of human possibility marks the directorial debut of Andy Serkis.
40) Chasing Orion
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Description
In 1952, when Georgie is eleven years old, her family moves to a new Indiana neighborhood where her teenaged neighbor has polio and is in an iron lung.