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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
English
Description
Traces the efforts of Dr. Paul Farmer to transform healthcare on a global scale, documenting his visits to some of the world's most impoverished regions and the unconventional methods that enabled him to improve and save lives.
2) Bunny call
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When left in darkness, rage festers. Years of frustration with his family culminate in a loathsome vacation for Bob, who plots a sinister prank to frighten his wife and kids. Matt redirects the residual anger over his many failed relationships into video game, and ends up birthing the horrible consequences. In room 1280 of Heracles Hospital, something evil is keeping a man alive, a man with gruesome burns all over his body and an iron will to live."--Back...
3) Prism
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
HL 510L
Language
English
Description
Three teenagers fall through a cave in Carlsbad Caverns while on a field trip and enter a parallel dimension that brings them seven weeks into the past in a world where medicine and health care does not exist.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After sixteen-year-old Tyler convinces his parents to donate the organs of his fourteen-year-old sister, who died during a gymnastics meet, he writes letters to the recipients, including Dani, who finally has a chance at normalcy after living fifteen years with a congenital heart defect.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 26
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
In All Creatures Great and Small, we meet the young Herriot as he takes up his calling and discovers that the realities of veterinary practice in rural Yorkshire are very different from the sterile setting of veterinary school. From caring for his patients in the depths of winter on the remotest homesteads to dealing with uncooperative owners and critically ill animals, Herriot discovers the wondrous variety and never-ending challenges of veterinary...
6) Hummingbird
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Olive, who suffers from brittle bone disease and has been homeschooled all her life, finally attends school in person she soon discovers fitting in is not that easy, but if she can find the magical wish-granting hummingbird that supposedly lives nearby, and prove herself worthy, maybe her deepest wish will be granted.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Civil War took the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans and left countless others with disabling wounds and chronic illnesses. Bullets and artillery shells shattered soldiers' bodies, while microbes and parasites killed twice as many men as did the battles. Yet from this tragic four-year conflict came innovations that enhanced medical care in the United States. With striking detail, this nonfiction book reveals battlefield rescues, surgical...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 blasted the United States into World War II, 101 American Army and Navy nurses serving in the Philippines were suddenly treating wounded and dying soldiers while bombs exploded all around them. The women served in jerry-rigged jungle hospitals on the Bataan Peninsula and in underground tunnels on Corregidor Island. Later, when most of them were captured by the Japanese as prisoners of war, they suffered...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
Written by a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy with autism, this memoir demonstrates how an autistic mind thinks, feels, perceives, and responds in ways few of us can imagine. Using an alphabet grid to painstakingly construct words, sentences, and thoughts that he is unable to speak out loud, Naoki answers even the most delicate questions that people want to know. Parents and family members who never thought they...
10) Wave
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When her best friend's cancer returns in the summer of 1987, none of her usual pursuits--surfing, singing, or reading poetry--can keep thirteen-year-old Ava afloat.
11) Queen of hearts
Author
Pub. Date
c2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Shortly after her first kiss but before her sixteenth birthday in December, 1941, Marie Claire and her younger brother and sister are sent to a tuberculosis sanatorium near their Manitoba farm.
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