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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Emergency room Emergency room Caroline B. Cooney College freshmen Seth and Diana volunteer in an emergency room to learn how to save lives — and along the way, they learn to live Seth volunteers at City Hospital to get first-hand experience with… OL12409W
Too Big! Too Big! Claire Masurel Everyone tells Charlie that his new toy dinosaur Tex is too big to take anywhere, but he proves to be just right when Charlie needs support at the doctor's office. OL12513W
Hello, Doctor Hello, Doctor Robert F. Marx A little boy does everything the doctor tells him to do when he goes for his check-up. OL14859452W
Ouch! Ouch! Harriet Ziefert Jon falls off of his bicycle but is less than enthusiastic about receiving treatment for the cut on his forehead. OL14968922W
This thing called the future This thing called the future J. L. Powers Fourteen-year-old Khosi's mother wants her to get an education to break out of their South African shantytown, although she herself is wasting away from an untreated illness, while Khosi's grandmothe… OL15976022W
Partials Partials Dan Wells The human race is all but extinct after a war with Partials--engineered organic beings identical to humans--has decimated the population. Reduced to only tens of thousands by RM, a weaponized virus t… OL16361041W
Doctor Shawn Doctor Shawn Petronella Breinburg A little boy and his sister play at being doctor and nurse. OL16455317W
I am a doctor I am a doctor Cynthia Benjamin After going to the doctor's office for a check-up and visiting a friend in the hospital, Anna and her twin brother Josh pretend that they are doctors themselves. OL1843796W
Boneshaker Boneshaker Kate Milford When Jake Limberleg brings his traveling medicine show to a small Missouri town in 1913, thirteen-year-old Natalie senses that something is wrong and, after investigating, learns that her love of aut… OL18635302W
Calling Doctor Amelia Bedelia Calling Doctor Amelia Bedelia Herman Parish 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. OL1984650W
My tata's remedies = My tata's remedies = Roni Capin Rivera-Ashford "Tata Gus teaches his grandson Aaron how to use natural healing remedies, and in the process helps the members of his family and his neighbors"-- OL20011929W
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson Stevenson’s famous gothic novella, first published in 1886, and filmed countless times is better known simply as Jekyll and Hyde. The first novel to toy with the idea of a split personality, it featu… OL24156W
Waiting for Johnny Miracle Waiting for Johnny Miracle Alice Bach Examines the medical treatment of a 17-year-old cancer patient and the emotional reactions of the patient, her family, and her friends. OL2643802W
Fickle fever Fickle fever Christi Killien After Skeeter breaks up with her boyfriend of three weeks, she falls in and out of love and wonders at her fickleness and the nature of love. OL4091581W
Close to Home Close to Home Lydia Weaver In the summer of 1952, Betsy sees her vacation fun overshadowed by the spreading polio epidemic, while her mother and other scientists work frantically to develop a vaccine for the crippling disease. OL4105636W
Your turn, Doctor Your turn, Doctor Deborah Robison When Gloria goes for her checkup, she imagines what it would be like if she gave the doctor a physical examination. OL5591758W