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Green Light
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Lloyd C. Douglas |
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Secrets at Camp Nokomis
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Jacqueline Dembar Greene |
When Rebecca attends summer camp in the country because of the spreading polio epidemic in New York City, she is troubled by a bully in her tent and another fellow camper who is strangely secretive. |
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Jonas Salk
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Peggy J. Parks |
A biography of the scientist and humanitarian who discovered the vaccine for polio, a disease which crippled many people in the early part of the twentieth century. |
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Polio
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David M. Oshinsky |
[This book] tells the ... story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find a cure, from the March of Dimes to the discovery of the Salk and Sabin vaccines--and beyond.-Dust jacket. |
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King of the mound
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Wes Tooke |
Twelve-year-old Nick loves baseball so after a year in the hospital fighting polio and with a brace on one leg, Nick takes a job with the team for which his father is catcher and gets to see the grea… |
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The wonder kid
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George Harrar |
In the summer of 1954, eleven-year-old Jesse James MacLean contracts polio, but with a friend's help and despite his unsympathetic father, he finds ways to prove that his spirit is still strong. |
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Odd & true
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Cat Winters |
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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Nemeses (Everyman / Humbling / Indignation / Nemesis)
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Philip A. Roth |
"Published together for the first time as the author intended, Nemeses is a quartet of novels whose terrain is the human body and whose subject, the common experience that terrifies us all"--Publishe… |
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The golden age
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Joan London |
Escaping the perils of World War II Hungary for Australia, Frank is diagnosed with polio and sent to a children's hospital where he falls in love with a fellow patient while their families struggle t… |
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The first polio vaccine
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Guy de la Bédoyère |
Timeline. Glossary. Index. Further information.
Early experiments with vaccines - The polio virus - Jonas Salk - Edward Jenner - Louis Pasteur - Bacteria and viruses - Sabin polio vaccine. |
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Amazing courage
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Margy Dieguez |
"The year was 1952 ... and in one moment that summer my life was changed forever. A dreaded virus was running rampant throughout the United States. Technically called infantile paralysis, this virus … |
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If wishes were horses
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Natalie Kinsey-Warnock |
During the summer of 1932 when Lily is twelve years old, she is granted her two greatest wishes, to be far from the sister who torments her and to have a horse of her own, but she does not expect eit… |
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God's green liniment
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Lois Johnson Rew |
The young daughter of a Swedish-American farm family recovers from polio thanks to her parents' prayers and rubbings with green horse liniment. |
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A life not with standing
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Chava Willig Levy |
A Life Not with Standing chronicles the adventures--by turns exhilarating, agonizing and amorous--of an iron lung alumna. It shatters stereotypes about people with disabilities, enabling others to vi… |
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The Walking Stick
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Winston Graham |
Ever since a fateful accident occurred in her childhood, crippling her for life, twenty-six year old Deborah Dainton has lacked confidence.
Although convinced of her unattractiveness to men, she g… |
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The story of Jonas Salk and the discovery of the polio vaccine
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Jim Hargrove |
Recounts the successful search of Jonas Salk for the vaccine that conquered polio. |
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Close to Home
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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. |
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Dancing Miranda
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Diane De Anda |
Miranda finds it difficult to rehearse for the dance recital after she learns that her mother's poliomyelitis kept her from dancing when she was a child. |
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Sister Kenny
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Victor Cohn |
On April 14, 1940, a woman named Elizabeth Kenny stepped onto a pier in San Francisco. An independent-minded bush nurse from Australia, she was determined to shake up the doctors. She wanted to make … |
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Time & place
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Bryan Woolley |
In 1952, in Appleby, Texas, the small town to which many have fled to escape the polio epidemic, is caught by the epidemic anyway ... |
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