Author: Sharon Dennis Wyeth
Publisher: Skylark
ISBN: 9780553158397
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Annie K. and her friends are in the middle of rehearsing for one play when suddenly everyone begins to see spots. The script for Annie K.'s play is in the back of this book.

Author: Beverly Lewis
Publisher: Turtleback
ISBN: 9780613960519
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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Chicken pox interferes with Abby's birthday surprise for her adopted Korean brother.

Author: Ann M. Martin
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338062840
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 75

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From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! Stay away, spots! Halloween is coming! There will be a party at school. and Karen, Hannie, and Nancy have planned the best costume ever. Then Karen’s little sister gets the chicken pox. It is very contagious. Karen does not want to catch chicken pox. If she does, it will ruin Halloween. And that would be really scary!

Author: Darshak Sanghavi
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805075113
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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A pediatric cardiologist presents a tour of a child's vital organs, sharing anecdotes about children struggling with disease and other physical challenges as they progress from birth through adolescence.

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Publisher: Branden Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780828320542
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30

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For ages 4-8. When she and her family go to Italy to visit her grandmother, Laura and her sister and brother come down with the chicken pox.

Author: Lee Conell
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1984880292
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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An electrifying debut novel that unfolds in the course of a single day inside one genteel New York City apartment building, as tensions between the building's super and his grown-up daughter spark a crisis that will, by day's end, change everything. Ruby has a strange relationship to privilege. She grew up the super's daughter in the basement of an Upper West Side co-op that gets more gentrified with each passing year. Though not economically privileged herself, her close childhood friendship with Caroline, the daughter of affluent tenants, and the mere fact of living in such a wealthy neighborhood, close to her beloved Natural History Museum, brought her certain advantages, even expectations. Naturally Ruby followed her dreams and took out loans to attend a prestigious small liberal arts college and explore her interest in art. But now, out of school for a while, she is no closer to her dream job, or anything resembling it, and she's been forced by circumstances to do the last thing she wanted to do: move back in with her parents, back into the basement. And Caroline is throwing one of her parties tonight, in her father's glorious penthouse apartment, a party Ruby looks forward to and dreads in equal measure. With a thriller's narrative control, The Party Upstairs distills worlds of wisdom about families, great expectations, and the hidden violence of class into the gripping, darkly witty story of a single fateful day inside the Manhattan co-op Ruby calls home.

Author: Meredith Wadman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143111310
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 466

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"A real jewel of science history...brims with suspense and now-forgotten catastrophe and intrigue...Wadman’s smooth prose calmly spins a surpassingly complicated story into a real tour de force."—The New York Times “Riveting . . . [The Vaccine Race] invites comparison with Rebecca Skloot's 2007 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.”—Nature The epic and controversial story of a major breakthrough in cell biology that led to the conquest of rubella and other devastating diseases. Until the late 1960s, tens of thousands of American children suffered crippling birth defects if their mothers had been exposed to rubella, popularly known as German measles, while pregnant; there was no vaccine and little understanding of how the disease devastated fetuses. In June 1962, a young biologist in Philadelphia, using tissue extracted from an aborted fetus from Sweden, produced safe, clean cells that allowed the creation of vaccines against rubella and other common childhood diseases. Two years later, in the midst of a devastating German measles epidemic, his colleague developed the vaccine that would one day wipe out homegrown rubella. The rubella vaccine and others made with those fetal cells have protected more than 150 million people in the United States, the vast majority of them preschoolers. The new cells and the method of making them also led to vaccines that have protected billions of people around the world from polio, rabies, chicken pox, measles, hepatitis A, shingles and adenovirus. Meredith Wadman’s masterful account recovers not only the science of this urgent race, but also the political roadblocks that nearly stopped the scientists. She describes the terrible dilemmas of pregnant women exposed to German measles and recounts testing on infants, prisoners, orphans, and the intellectually disabled, which was common in the era. These events take place at the dawn of the battle over using human fetal tissue in research, during the arrival of big commerce in campus labs, and as huge changes take place in the laws and practices governing who “owns” research cells and the profits made from biological inventions. It is also the story of yet one more unrecognized woman whose cells have been used to save countless lives. With another frightening virus--measles--on the rise today, no medical story could have more human drama, impact, or urgency than The Vaccine Race.

Author: Patrick Guilfoile
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1604132272
Category : Chickenpox
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Examines the history, causes, and treatments of chicken pox in both children and adults.

Author: Elizabeth A. Fenn
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780809078219
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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A horrifying epidemic of smallpox was sweeping across the Americas when the War of Independence began, and yet little is known about it. Fenn reveals how deeply "variola" affected the outcome of the war in every colony and the lives of everyone in North America. Illustrations.

Author: Stephanie Messenger
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1466938897
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 43

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Melanie s Marvelous Measles takes children on a journey to learn about the ineffectiveness of vaccinations and to know they don t have to be scared of childhood illnesses, like measles and chicken pox. There are many health messages for parents to expand on about keeping healthy. For an information pack on vaccinations to be sent out free in Australia, people can e-mail [email protected] and provide their postal address.