Gail Jarrow
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
This thrilling title for young readers blends science, history, and medical mysteries to tell the story of the assassination and ultimately horrible death of President James Garfield. Medical fiascos series, 240pp.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
On Halloween Eve in 1938, people across America gathered around the radio to listen to their favorite Sunday evening program. Expecting to hear the latest drama from Orson Welles's "Mercury Theatre", many were alarmed when news bulletins interrupted the show. New Jersey had been rocked by mysterious explosions. The announcements continued, each more frantic than the last. An invading army's strange and powerful weapons thousands. Listeners feared...
Author
Series
Deadly disease trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Chronicles the story of the early 1900s typhoid fever epidemic in New York, providing details as to how its infamous carrier was ultimately tracked down and stopped.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"Imagine microscopic worms living in the soil. They enter your body through your bare feet, travel to your intestines, and stay there for years sucking your blood like vampires. You feel exhausted. You get sick easily. It sounds like a nightmare, but that's what happened in the American South during the 1800s and early 1900s. Doctors never guessed that hookworms were making patients ill, but zoologist Charles Stiles knew better. Working with one of...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"The Civil War took the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans and left countless others with disabling wounds and chronic illnesses. Bullets and artillery shells shattered soldiers' bodies, while microbes and parasites killed twice as many men as did the battles. Yet from this tragic four-year conflict came innovations that enhanced medical care in the United States. With striking detail, this nonfiction book reveals battlefield rescues, surgical...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Here is the fascinating true story of how food was made safer to eat thanks to the stubborn dedication of government chemist Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, whose hard work and determination led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Formaldehyde, borax, salicylic acid. Today, these chemicals are used in embalming fluids, cleaning supplies, and acne medications. But in 1900, they were routinely added to food that Americans ate from...
Author
Series
Deadly disease trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 5
Author
Series
Deadly disease trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Examines "the true story of America's first plague epidemic--the public health doctors who desperately fought to end it, the political leaders who tried to keep it hidden, and the brave scientists who uncovered the plague's secrets"--Amazon.com.