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3) Breathe
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
After he is diagnosed with polio at age twenty-eight, Robin Cavendish, with the help of his wife Diana, beats the odds to devote his life to helping other polio patients.
5) Nemesis
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Roth's "Nemesis" is the story of a wartime polio epidemic in the summer of 1944 and the effect it has on a closely knit, family-oriented Newark community and its children.
Author
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Berg, bestselling author of The Art of Mending and The Year of Pleasures, has a rare talent for revealing her characters’ hearts and minds in a manner that makes us empathize completely. We Are All Welcome Here features three women, each struggling against overwhelming odds for her own kind of freedom.
It is the summer of 1964. In Tupelo, Mississippi, the town of Elvis’s birth, tensions...
It is the summer of 1964. In Tupelo, Mississippi, the town of Elvis’s birth, tensions...
10) Chasing Orion
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In 1952, when Georgie is eleven years old, her family moves to a new Indiana neighborhood where her teenaged neighbor has polio and is in an iron lung.
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
This film interweaves the personal accounts of polio survivors with the story of an ardent crusader who tirelessly fought on their behalf. Features interviews with historians, scientists, polio survivors, and the only surviving scientist from the core research team that developed the Salk vaccine, Julius Youngner.
12) House of men
Author
Publisher
Center Point Publishing
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
"Following the breakup of her engagement, Kate Mitchell applies for a job as a part-time secretary at TorFret, the lonely house above the village on Neete Fell. There she works for Maurice Rossiter, head of a strange household composed only of men."--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Dr. Jonas Salk is one of the most celebrated doctors and medical researchers of the 20th century. The child of immigrants who never learned to speak English, Jonas was struck by the devastation he saw when the soldiers returned from battle after WWII. Determined to help, he worked to become a doctor and eventually joined the team that created the influenza vaccine. But Jonas wanted to do more. As polio ravaged the United States--even the president...
17) The giant-slayer
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When her eight-year-old neighbor is stricken with polio in 1955, eleven-year-old Laurie discovers that there is power in her imagination as she weaves a story during her visits with him and other patients confined to iron lung machines.
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The author describes her childhood battle with polio and how it forced her to grow up quickly and try to fit in as "normal" in a world that saw her as disabled, a journey that eventually led her to find her balance, physically and spiritually.
19) Odd & true
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Told from separate viewpoints, Odette returns in 1909 after a two-year absence, promising to rescue her disabled sister, Tru, from the monsters they were taught to believe in.
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