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Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Treatment options, lifestyle strategies,and emotional support for two million Americans.
Epilepsy, once mistakenly associated with demonic possession, has for centuries been a poorly understood illness. Today, though it affects nearly one out of every one hundred Americans, little comprehensive information can be found on bookshelves regarding this common and complex neurological disease. Until now!
Using his expertise in pharmacology and neuroscience,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Child's World
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Gives readers a look into the lives and abilities of people who have epilepsy, as well as the challenges they face. Learn how medications, special diets, and service dogs can help people manage their epilepsy"-- Amazon.com
Author
Series
Publisher
Bearport Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Sometimes a person with epilepsy might start to twitch or fall down. Uh-oh, it's an emergency! Prepare young learners to empathetically understand and care for a friend with an epileptic seizure. Learn what's happening, how to be a helper, and ways to keep your friend safe. A bright design and carefully crafted text takes fear out of emergencies to make them easier to understand"--
Author
Publisher
Victory Belt Publishing Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
The 30-Day Ketogenic Cleanse is a guidebook for healing your body from the inside out with a high-fat, moderate-protein, low-carbohydrate diet. Sadly, most people who attempt a keto diet do it incorrectly. Keto expert Maria Emmerich, on the other hand, has based this cleanse on a true, well-formulated ketogenic diet, which will help you reset your metabolism, regain good health, boost your energy, and shed unwanted weight, all without feeling restricted...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Description
When third-grader Meena starts to believe she has super powers and is protected from epileptic seizures, she jeopardizes her relationship with her friends and younger sister.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Josie is timid at school, comfortable at home, and confident when she and her dog Clementine are volunteering at the pediatric ward of the local hospital; Oscar is acting out and in trouble at school, miserable at home, and forced to volunteer as a punishment; Gabby is popular at school, but her perfect life is threatened because she is hiding a dangerous medical condition--but at the hospital the three children are brought together by Clementine...
Author
Series
Publisher
Amicus Learning
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Meet Max! He likes riding his scooter and playing with his dog. He also has epilepsy. Max is real and so are his experiences. Learn about his life in this illustrated narrative nonfiction picture book for elementary students"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
As sixteen-year-old Leilani and her family learn to live without electronics, farming the land as her ancestors did, she finds strength in her relatives, her strange connection to the Emerald Orchid--a being whose presence caused global devastation--and her friendship with Aukina but suffers regret over what she had to do to survive.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Eleanor and Edward have wealth, status, and a happy marriage. But the 1929 financial crash is looming, and they're harboring a terrible, shameful secret. How far are they willing to go to protect their charmed life-even if it means abandoning their child to a horrific fate?"--
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Stranded in Honolulu when a strange cloud causes a worldwide electronics failure, sixteen-year-old Leilani and her father must make their way home to Hilo amid escalating perils, including her severe epilepsy.
15) Stella
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Stella used to be a bomb-sniffing dog, but after a terrible accident, she goes to live on a small family farm to recover from her fear of loud noises.
As a puppy, Stella was trained to use her powerful beagle nose to sniff out dangerous chemicals and help her handler keep people safe. During a routine security inspection, Stella misses the scent of an explosive. The sound of the blast is loud and scary. Unable to go back to work because of her anxiety,...
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Formats
Description
"In the late 1930s, in asylums and hospitals across America, a group of renowned neurosurgeons worked to develop and refine a new class of brain operation--the lobotomy--that they hoped would eradicate everything from schizophrenia to homosexuality...The most important test subject to emerge from this largely untold chapter was a 27-year-old factory worker named Henry Molaison...Journalist Luke Dittrich uses his case as a starting point for a kaleidoscopic...
Author
Publisher
Blink
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Emilie Day believes in playing it safe: she's homeschooled, her best friend is her seizure dog, and she's probably the only girl on the Outer Banks of North Carolina who can't swim. Then Emilie's mom enrolls her in public school, and Emilie goes from studying at home in her pj's to halls full of strangers. To make matters worse, Emilie is paired with starting point guard Chatham York for a major research project on Emily Dickinson. She should be thrilled...
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