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Gail Jarrow
The latest from acclaimed author Gail Jarrow reveals how magicians-including Harry Houdini and his team of investigators-exposed fake mediums who exploited the vulnerable and gullible in the early twentieth century.
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An illustrated work of classic nursery rhymes. It also contains puzzles. It lets children pour over the pages hunting for the eight objects hidden inside each illustration.
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…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. –
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This engaging biography of Jackson, a New Deal lawyer, Supreme Court Justice, and chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trial, details the personal journey of this extraordinary man who had…
Harry Kellar (1849-1922) was the most well-known illusionist at the turn of the century and the first American-born magician to avhieve international fame. This biography of a key American magician…
The first middle-grade trade book that tells the true story of the woman who unwittingly spread deadly bacteria [in early twentieth-century America], the epidemiologist who discovered her trail of infection…
Examines 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…
Here is the fascinating true story of how food was made safer to eat thanks to the stubborn dedication of government chemist Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, whose hard work and…
BONUS! new chapter on the COVID-19 pandemic – Cover
Winner of the 2022 YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award Kirkus Reviews Best Book
? An unforgettable book. -School Library Journal, starred review
This thrilling title for young…
What made workers in the American South so tired and feeble during the 19th and early 20th centuries? This exciting medical mystery uncovers the secrets of the parasite hookworm, commonly…
A chigger is too small to see as it attacks. But this familiar parasite creates a big itch when it feasts on its host’s skin cells.
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.
Acclaimed author Gail Jarrow, recipient of a 2019 Robert F. Sibert Honor Award, explores the science and grisly history of U.S. Civil War medicine, using actual medical cases and first-person…
Included on NPR's 2022 "Books We Love" List What made workers in the American South so tired and feeble during the 19th and early 20th centuries? This exciting medical mystery…
