Fresh Reads, Honest reviews, Educator-approved
Cannons, scabs, and “numbskulls”! Follow thirteen-year-old Elsbeth as she navigates a war-torn Boston plagued by a terrifying smallpox epidemic. This fast-paced survival story tackles the fascinating history of early medicine and the grit of a girl determined to find her father while avoiding the orphanage. It’s a powerful, period-accurate look at our nation’s chaotic birth.
It sounds like a horror movie: microscopic vampires entering your feet and stealing your strength. Gail Jarrow uncovers the medical mystery of the hookworm parasite that devastated the American South. Blending gross-out science with fascinating social history, this book reveals how one scientist’s discovery fought both a disease and a deadly stereotype.
How Victorian male doctors used false science to argue that women were unfit for anything but motherhood—and the brilliant doctor who defied them. After Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to graduate from medical school, more women demanded a chance to study medicine.