Open Court

Grade 4

From Mystery to Medicine

362.7 Coe

Coerr, Eleanor, 1922-. Sadako and the thousand paper cranes.

New York : Putnam, c1977. Hospitalized with the dreaded

atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races

against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the

legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.

610 Par

Parker, Steve. Medicine. 1st American ed. London ; New York :

Dorling Kindersley, 1995. Photographs and text explore the

history of medicine from its ancient beginnings to the

present. Includes information on instruments, medications,

and the treatment of disease used in both alternative and

modern medicine.

610.69 Bow

Bowman-Kruhm, Mary. A day in the life of a doctor. New York :

PowerKids Press, 1997. Describes the daily responsibilities

and tasks in the life of a doctor.

610.69 Dor

Dornhoffer, Mary K. Doctors. Minneapolis, MN : Compass Point

Books, c2000. An introduction to the career of doctor,

describing the education and training required, different

kinds of work they do, and their value to the community.

612 McG

McGowen, Tom. The circulatory system : from Harvey to the

artificial heart. New York : F. Watts, 1988. Describes

early theories on how the circulatory system functions,

Harvey's "discovery" of the circulatory system, and advances

since his time in this area of medicine.

616 Ber

Berger, Melvin. Germs make me sick! Rev. ed. New York :

HarperCollins, c1996. Explains how bacteria and viruses

affect the human body and how the body fights them.

616 Wol

Wolfe, Robert L. Emergency room. Minneapolis : Carolrhoda

Books, c1983. Text and photographs describe activities

occurring in a hospital emergency room as they follow a

number of both seriously ill patients and patients with

minor complaints through their treatment.

636.7 Kim

Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody. Balto and the great race. New York :

Random House, c1999. Recounts how the sled dog Balto saved

Nome, Alaska, in 1925 from a diphtheria epidemic by

delivering medicine through a raging snowstorm.

F And

Anderson, Laurie Halse. Fever, 1793. New York : Simon &

Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2000. In 1793

Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from

her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance

when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow

fever epidemic.

F DeF

DeFelice, Cynthia C. The apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker. 1st

ed. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1996. After his

family dies of consumption in 1849, twelve-year-old Lucas

becomes a doctor's apprentice.

F Woj

Wojciechowska, Maia. Shadow of a bull. New York : Atheneum

Books for Young Readers, [1983], c1964. Manolo Olivar has

to make a decision: to follow in his famous father's shadow

and become a bullfighter, or to follow his heart and become

a doctor.

PB f

Baker, Rachel. The first woman doctor.

PB f

Sabin, Francene. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman doctor.

Mahwah, N.J. : Troll Associates, c1982. Traces the early

life of the first woman physician, relating the struggle

women had to face in becoming doctors and practicing

medicine.

VC

Your body: Muscular and skeletal systems.