Gail Jarrow
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
On Halloween eve 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 had killed thousands. Listeners feared...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Acclaimed author Gail Jarrow, recipient of a 2019 Robert F. Sibert Honor Award, explores the science and grisly history of U.S. Civil War medicine, using actual medical cases and first-person accounts by soldiers, doctors, and nurses. 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...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
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. James Abram Garfield, the 20th President of the United States, was assassinated when he was shot by Charles Guiteau in July 1881, less than four months after he was elected president. But Garfield didn't actually die until 80 days later. In this page-turner, award-winning...
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek
Pub. Date
[2015].
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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
Publisher
Calkins Creek
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Presenting the amazing Harry Kellar! The first magician to receive international fame! The most well-known illusionist at the turn of the twentieth century! The model for the Wizard of Oz! Author Gail Jarrow follows Kellar from a magician's assistant traveling and performing across the United States during the Civil War to an international superstar with a show of his own, entertaining emperors, kings, and presidents"--
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Discusses the achievements of chemist Harvey Washington Wiley, who recognized the dangers of using harmful chemicals, including formaldehyde, borax, and salicyclic acid, in food and medicine and fought for safe products for consumers.