Health & Daily Living - Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries
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Fever: How Tu Youyou Adapted Traditional Chinese Medicine to Find a Cure for Malaria
$25.99 Add to cartFor ages 7-12
People were dying! Malaria is a deadly mosquito-borne disease that causes fevers, chills and often death. In 1969, the People’s Republic of China created a task force to find a cure.
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- Series: Moments in Science #7
- Author: Pattison, Darcy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 34
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1629441953
- Language: English
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When Plague Strikes: The Black Death, Smallpox, AIDS
$9.99 Add to cartCompassionate and arresting, this exploration of three major diseases that have changed the course of history–the bubonic plague, smallpox, and AIDS–chronicles their fearsome death toll, their lasti… [more below]
- Author: Giblin, James Cross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 11 1997
- ISBN10: 0064461955
- Language: English
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Snot, Sneezes, and Super-Spreaders: Everything You Need to Know about Viruses and How to Stop Them.
$19.95 Add to cartDiscover the extraordinary world of viruses, from their creation and transmission to what we can do to stop them, in this science-based resource for kids 8 to 12.
If we didn’t know it before, we certa
- Author: Ter Horst, Marc
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1771649739
- Language: English
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The Hospital: The Inside Story
$17.99 Add to cartIt’s another busy day at the hospital! Meet doctors and nurses, ride in an ambulance, and discover the magic of medicine in this nonfiction story for kids.
This book is perfect for any child who is ne- Series: Inside Story
- Author: Nwora, Christle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1684492041
- Language: English
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Mommy Has Cancer: What I Learned about Cancer, and How I Helped My Mommy
$13.95 Add to cart“Now we celebrate because Mommy doesn’t have breast cancer anymore…”
Corey Jr. is a nine-year-old from Saint Louis, Missouri, who has chosen to share his journey during his mother’s battle with breas
- Author: Stevenson, Corey L., Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 30
- Publish Date: February 24 2021
- ISBN10: 1098048695
- Language: English
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The Donut That Roared: A Child’s Guide to Surviving an MRI
$20.00 Add to cartJackson looks like any other kid. But he has a “jelly bean” in his brain and that means getting lots of MRIs. In The Donut That Roared, Jackson helps young readers cope with the anxiety, fear (and noi
- Series: Donut That Roared #1
- Author: Brasher, Joan Yordy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: March 01 2019
- ISBN10: 057843072X
- Language: English
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What Was the Plague?
$7.99 Add to cartOh, rats! It’s time to take a deeper look at what caused the Black Death–the deadliest pandemic recorded in human history.
While the coronavirus COVID-19 changed the world in 2020, it still isn’t the- Series: What Was?
- Author: Edwards, Roberta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0593383656
- Language: English
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What is Epilepsy?: A simple explanation of a complex diagnosis.
$24.00 Add to cartA simple explanation of the complex world of epilepsy. Follow our little narrator, Effie, as she explores what epilepsy is, why it happens, and what can be done about it. Written by a parent of a chil
- Author: Adkisson, Hailey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 44
- Publish Date: October 09 2023
- ISBN10: 9.79822E+12
- Language: English
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Masked Hero: How Wu Lien-Teh Invented the Mask That Ended an Epidemic
$18.99 Read moreMeet Dr. Wu Lien-teh, defeater of the Manchurian plague–in a story authored by his great-granddaughter, an emergency physician who relied on his life-saving invention during a pandemic a century late… [more below]
- Author: Liu, Shan Woo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1536228982
- Language: English
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When Someone Has a Very Serious Illness: Children Can Learn to Cope with Loss and Change
$9.95 Read moreAn excellent resource for helping children learn the basic concepts of illness and various age-appropriate ways of coping with it.
- Series: Drawing Out Feelings
- Author: Heegaard, Marge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: July 23 1996
- ISBN10: 0962050245
- Language: English
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What to Do When Your Brain Gets Stuck: A Kid’s Guide to Overcoming OCD
$16.99 Add to cartA Gold NAPPA Winner (National Parenting Publications Awards)
Moonbeam Silver Children’s Book Award for Activity BooksWhat To Do When Your Brain Gets Stuck guides children and their parents th
- Series: What-To-Do Guides for Kids
- Author: Huebner, Dawn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 15 2007
- ISBN10: 1591478057
- Language: English
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Plague-Busters!: Medicine’s Battles with History’s Deadliest Diseases
$19.99 Add to cartSmallpox! Rabies! Black Death! Throughout history humankind has been plagued by . . . well, by plagues. The symptoms of these diseases were gruesome-but the remedies were even worse.
Get to know the- Author: Fitzharris, Lindsey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 1547606037
- Language: English
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I’m Unvaccinated and That’s Ok!
$19.99 Read moreMOM’S CHOICE AWARD WINNER!
I’m Unvaccinated and That’s OK! is the story of an unvaccinated child named Nicholas Novaks, who shares the many reasons why his parents have chosen not to vaccinate him. Ni- Author: Kroner, Shannon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1510778195
- Language: English
