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1) AIDS
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"What Causes AIDS?; What Is the Status of the Global AIDS Epidemic?; How Can the Spread of AIDS Be Controlled?; How Should AIDS Be Treated?"--
Author
Language
English
Description
Small-town Appalachia doesn't have a lot going for it, but it's where Brian is from, where his family is, and where he's chosen to return to die. At eighteen, Brian, like so many other promising young gay men, arrived in New York City without much more than a love for the freedom and release from his past that it promised. But within six short years, AIDS would claim his lover, his friends, and his future. With nothing left in New York but memories...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In this striking literary debut, Carol Rifka Brunt unfolds a moving story of love, grief, and renewal as two lonely people become the unlikeliest of friends and find that sometimes you don’t know you’ve lost someone until you’ve found them. 1987. There’s only one person who has ever truly understood fourteen-year-old June Elbus, and that’s her uncle, the renowned painter Finn Weiss. Shy at school and distant from her older sister, June can...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
A deeply personal account of Elton John's life during the era of AIDS and an inspiring call to action. In the 1980s, Elton John saw friend after friend, loved one after loved one, perish needlessly from AIDS. He befriended Ryan White, a young Indiana boy ostracized because of his HIV infection. Ryan's inspiring life and devastating death led Elton to two realizations: His own life was a mess. And he had to do something to help stop the AIDS crisis....
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Groundbreaking narrative nonfiction for teens that tells the story of the AIDS crisis in America. Thirty-five years ago, it was a modern-day, mysterious plague. Its earliest victims were mostly gay men, some of the most marginalized people in the country; at its peak in America, it killed tens of thousands of people. The losses were staggering, the science frightening, and the government's inaction unforgivable. The AIDS Crisis fundamentally changed...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In this addition to the New York Times bestselling series, learn how incredible activists made the public aware of AIDS and spurred medical breakthroughs. In the early 1980s, the first cases of a devastating and fatal new disease appeared, a disease that at first struck only gay men and was later identified as HIV/AIDS. It was the beginning of what became a worldwide health crisis that the US government ignored for years and that unfairly heightened...
10) Aids crisis
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"This title focuses on the AIDS crisis and gives information related to its symptoms, causes, and global impact"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
This New York Times–bestselling novel is "lively, topical, and fantasy filled. Watch out, Terry McMillian. Cleage is on your tail" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
After a decade of elegant pleasures and luxe living with the Atlanta brothers and sisters with the best clothes and biggest dreams, Ava Johnson has temporarily returned home to Idlewild—her fabulous career and power plans smashed to bits by cold reality. But...
After a decade of elegant pleasures and luxe living with the Atlanta brothers and sisters with the best clothes and biggest dreams, Ava Johnson has temporarily returned home to Idlewild—her fabulous career and power plans smashed to bits by cold reality. But...
13) Chanda's secrets
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A girl's struggle amid the African AIDS pandemic, Chanda, is an astonishingly perceptive girl living in the small city of Bonang, a fictional city in Southern Africa. When her youngest sister dies, the first hint of HIV/AIDS emerges, Chanda must confront undercurrents of shame and stigma. Not afraid to explore the horrific realities of AIDS, Chanda's Secrets also captures the enduring strength of loyalty, friendship and family ties. Above all, it...
15) Miracle cure
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2016].
Language
English
Description
When Dr. Bruce Grey and Dr. Harvey Riker find a cure for AIDS, two young lovers, popular TV journalist Sara Lowell, and Knicks star Michael Silverman, find themselves inextricably caught up in the political double dealings involved in the discovery.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In 1986, twenty-six-year-old Ruth visits a friend at the hospital when she notices a door to one of the rooms is painted red. Nurses are drawing straws to see who will tend to the patient crying for his mother on the other side, all of them unwilling to help. Ruth immediately steps into the quarantined space herself, comforting the young man in his last moments. Before she realizes what she's done, word spreads in the community that Ruth is the only...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Based on more than two hundred interviews with ACT UP members and rich with lessons for today's activists, Let the Record Show is a revelatory exploration--and long-overdue reassessment--of the coalition's inner workings, conflicts, achievements, and ultimate fracture. Schulman, one of the most revered queer writers and thinkers of her generation, explores the how and the why, examining, with her characteristic rigor and bite, how a group of desperate...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"From the creator of and inspired by the seminal documentary of the same name--an Oscar nominee--the definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic, and the powerful, heroic stories of the gay activists who refused to die without a fight. Intimately reported, this is the story of the men and women who, watching their friends and lovers fall, ignored by public officials, religious leaders, and the nation at large, and confronted...
19) Auma's long run
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2020].
Language
English
Description
When AIDS devastates thirteen-year-old Auma's village in Kenya during the 1980s, Auma must choose between staying to help her family and working toward a track scholarship that will take her away from home.
Author
Language
English
Description
1983, New York. Michael lives in the shadow of his best friends: James, a teen performance artist who everyone wants and no one can have; and Becky, who calls things as she sees them, while doing all she can to protect those she loves. His brother Connor has already been kicked out of the house for being gay. Hanging out at The Echo, Michael can dance and forget about his father's angry words, the pressures of school, and the looming threat of AIDS,...
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