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Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Language
English
Description
Shep Knacker, having saved for years to retire to a Tanzanian island where he could live on his nest egg for the rest of his life, is stunned when his wife Glynis announces she has a rare form of cancer and needs his insurance, and while the mounting bills cut deeply into his savings, he is buoyed by rants against the health care system by his friend Jackson who is caring for a sick child.
Author
Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Explains what happens during a typical visit to the doctor, covering such activities as having your temperature taken, having your blood pressure measured, and getting a shot.
11) Doctor Ted
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After bumping his knee one morning, Ted decides to become a doctor, but he has only one problem--he has no patients!
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Thomas Fisher was raised on the South Side of Chicago and even as a kid understood how close death could feel-he came from a family of pioneering doctors who believed in staying in the community, but on those streets he saw just how vulnerable Black bodies could be. Determined to follow his family's legacy, Fisher studied public health at Dartmouth and Harvard, then returned to the University of Chicago Medical School. As soon as he graduated, he...
Author
Series
Judy Moody volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Judy is excited about becoming a doctor, especially when Class 3T starts a new unit on the human body, but she learns more about being a patient when she catches tonsillitis from her little brother, Stink.
14) Wedded to war
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"This is the first book in a series based on the real life stories of women who lived and worked during the Civil War. The author has done extensive research around the lives of military women during the Civil War for a nonfiction title and became inspired to share their stories in a fictionalized depiction based on her historical research. Charlotte Waverly is a 28 year-old upper-class woman from New York and one of only 100 women chosen for nursing...
Author
Series
Amelia Bedelia series volume 16
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When the literal-minded Amelia Bedelia helps out at her doctor's office one busy day, nothing seems to go quite right until Amelia begins to treat the impatient patients.
17) ABC Doctor
Author
Publisher
Blue Apple Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The who, the what, the why and the how -- everything kids need to know about going to the doctor."
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"[P]hysician and [...] author Louise Aronson's Elderhood is a [...] look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life. For more than 5,000 years, "old" has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means most people alive today will spend more years in elderhood than in childhood, and many will be elders for 40 years or more. Yet at the very moment that humans are living longer than ever before, we've made old age into a disease,...
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