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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
Paige Rawl was an ordinary girl.
Cheerleader, soccer player, honor roll student. One of the good kids at her middle school.
Then, on an unremarkable day, Paige disclosed the one thing that made her "different": her HIV-positive status.
It didn't matter that she was born with the disease or that her illness posed no danger to her classmates.
Within hours, the bullying began.
They called her PAIDS. Left cruel notes
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The Zika Virus covers the Zika outbreak that began in 2015, discusses the history of the virus and its discovery, examines how the virus spreads and how it affects the infected, and looks at how the medical community is fighting it. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
This timely book describes the details of three real case studies of investigative journalism about health care. Stories include journalists exposing wrongdoing by drug companies, neglect of dying patients in by hospice home-care providers, and lead-poisoning from drinking water in Flint, Michigan. Readers will gain an understanding of the research process, the ethical standards journalists must follow, and the perseverance required to confirm a story...
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
It's 2001 and zombies have taken over Tom's town. Meth zombies. The drug rips through Blackwater, PA, with a ferocity and a velocity that overwhelms everyone. It starts small, with petty thefts of cleaning supplies and Sudafed from the supermarket where Tom works. But by year's end there will be ruined, hollow people on every street corner. Meth will unmake the lives of friends and teachers and parents. It will fill the prisons, and the morgues....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
This book explores cancer and how people diagnosed with the disease manage it. It examines how cancer affects daily life, work, and school, and it explains the latest treatments available. Features include a glossary, web resources, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Handling Health Challenges examines disorders and diseases and the ways in which they impact daily life for the people who...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
This book explores depression and how people diagnosed with the disorder manage it. It examines how depression affects daily life, work, and school, and it explains the latest treatments available. Features include a glossary, web resources, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO. Glossary of key words Index Infographics...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
This book explores autism and how people diagnosed with the disorder manage it. It examines how autism affects daily life, work, and education, and it explains the latest interventions and therapies available. Features include a glossary, web resources, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO. Glossary of key words Index Infographics...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
This book explores obesity and how people with the disease manage it. It examines how obesity affects daily life, work, and school, and it explains how obesity can be prevented and treated. Features include a glossary, web resources, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO. Glossary of key words Index Infographics Informative...
10) Handling Asthma
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
This book explores asthma and how, people diagnosed with the disease manage it. It examines how asthma affects daily life, work, and school, and it explains the latest treatments available. Features include a glossary, web resources, source notes, and an index.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
This book explores diabetes and how, people diagnosed with the disease manage it. It examines how diabetes affects daily life, work, and school, and it explains the latest treatments available. Features include a glossary, web resources, source notes, and an index.
12) Handling ADHD
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
This book explores ADHD and how people, diagnosed with the disorder manage it. It examines how ADHD affects daily life, work, and school, and it explains the latest treatments available. Features include a glossary, web resources, source notes, and an index.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Dylan has never met her father. She knows that her parents were just teenagers themselves when she was born, but her mother doesn't like to talk about the past, and her father, Mark, has never responded to Dylan's attempts to contact him. As far as Dylan is concerned, her family is made up of her mother, Amanda; her recently adopted younger sister, Karma; and maybe even her best friend, Toni.
And then, out of the blue, a phone...
And then, out of the blue, a phone...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Dani was born with her heart on the wrong side of her body. In her fifteen years of life, she's had more doctor's appointments, X-rays, and tests, and eaten more green hospital Jell-O than she cares to think about. Fourteen-year-old Amanda is a competitive gymnast, her body a small package of sleek muscles, in perfect health. The two girls don't know each other, don't go to the same school, don't have any friends in common. But, their lives are about...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The Vaccination Debate covers the history of vaccine controversies, the 2014 measles outbreak, and the balance between public safety and personal freedoms, studying how an accepted medical treatment has become a contentious issue in US society. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
An ordinary blue thermos holding blood samples from a sick nun in Zaire reached Belgium's Institute of Tropical Medicine in September 1976. From the samples, researchers discovered a new virus, which they named the Ebola virus after a river in Central Africa. The virus killed two hundred eighty people before it seemingly disappeared into the jungle. No one suspected the virus would erupt in West Africa nearly four decades later to cause an unprecedented...
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