Gail Jarrow
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English
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"Imagine microscopic worms living in the soil. They enter your body through your bare feet, travel to your intestines, and stay there for years sucking your blood like vampires. You feel exhausted. You get sick easily. It sounds like a nightmare, but that's what happened in the American South during the 1800s and early 1900s. Doctors never guessed that hookworms were making patients ill, but zoologist Charles Stiles knew better. Working with one of...
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Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"James Abram Garfield, the 20th President of the United States, was assassinated when he was shot by Charles Guiteau in July 1881, less than four months after he was elected president. But Garfield didn't actually die until 80 days later. In this page-turner, award-winning author Gail Jarrow delves into the fascinating story of the relationship between Garfield and Guiteau, and relates the gruesome details of Garfield's slow and agonizing death. She...
Author
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Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Describes the panic induced when listeners believed Orson Welles' radio broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" to be news of an alien invasion, discussing the context in which the broadcast was aired and why it was so convincing.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Explores the science and grisly history of U.S. Civil War medicine, using actual medical cases and first-person accounts by soldiers, doctors, and nurses. 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...
7) Hookworms
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Series
Publisher
Kidhaven Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
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Discusses the characteristics of hookworms, how they attach to a host and the problems they can cause, and explains various ways to control the worms and the diseases they cause.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
One hundred years ago, a mysterious and alarming illness spread across America's South, striking tens of thousands of victims. No one knew what caused it or how to treat it. People were left weak, disfigured, insane, and in some cases, dead. Award winning science and history writer Gail Jarrow tracks this disease, commonly known as pellagra, and highlights how doctors, scientists, and public health officials finally defeated it. Illustrated with 100...
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Provides an account of Thaddeus Lowe's efforts to provide intelligence to Union forces during the American Civil War, detailing how he managed to telegraph messages to the War Department in Washington from a silk hydrogen balloon that floated over the battlefields.
13) Chiggers
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Series
Publisher
Kidhaven Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Provides an overview of what chiggers are, how they live, and their potential as a carrier of disease.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Discusses the achievements of chemist Harvey Washington Wiley, who recognized the dangers of using harmful chemicals, including formaldehyde, borax, and salicyclic acid, in food and medicine and fought for safe products for consumers.
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Publisher
Calkins Creek
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Presenting the amazing Harry Kellar! The first magician to receive international fame! The most well-known illusionist at the turn of the twentieth century! The model for the Wizard of Oz! Author Gail Jarrow follows Kellar from a magician's assistant traveling and performing across the United States during the Civil War to an international superstar with a show of his own, entertaining emperors, kings, and presidents"--
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Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In March 1900, San Francisco's health department investigated a strange and horrible death in Chinatown. A man had died of bubonic plague, one of the world's deadliest diseases. But how could that be possible? Bubonic Panic tells the true story of America's first plague epidemic -- the public health doctors who desperately fought to end it, the political leaders who tried to keep it hidden, and the brave scientists who uncovered the plague's secrets....