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Author
Publisher
Random House
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Hay fever. Peanut allergies. Eczema. Either you have a frustrating allergy, or you know someone who does. Billions of people worldwide--an estimated 30 to 40 percent of the global population--have some form of allergy; millions have one severe enough to actively endanger their health. Even more concerningly, over the last decade, the number of people diagnosed with allergy has been steadily increasing. Medical anthropologist Theresa MacPhail, herself...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"The story of a teenage girl who's literally allergic to the outside world. When a new family moves in next door, she begins a complicated romance that challenges everything she's ever known. The narrative unfolds via vignettes, diary entries, texts, charts, lists, illustrations, and more"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
80 p. : col. ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Emma really wants a pet to love but her mother is allergic, so her friends Kyle and Mia set out to find a pet for Emma that will not make her mother sick.
Author
Publisher
The Experiment
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
220 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Tried-and-tested gluten-free recipes for more than sixty pizza creations made from fifteen kinds of dough-from American pie to the Italian originals (Roman, Sicilian, Neapolitan) with toppings that novice and seasoned chefs alike will find inventive and exciting"--
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Around Christmas of 1882, while peering through a microscope at starfish larvae in which he had inserted tiny thorns, Russian zoologist Elie Metchnikoff had a brilliant insight: what if the mobile cells he saw gathering around the thorns were the same as white blood cells that traveled to the site of an injury or infection in a human or other animal? Was this some form of cellular defense? Metchnikoff's theory of immunity, that phagocytes-white blood...
11) Bloom
Author
Series
Overthrow volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"The invasion begins--but not as you'd expect. It begins with rain. Rain that carries seeds. Seeds that sprout--overnight, everywhere. These new plants take over crop fields, twine up houses, and burrow below streets. They bloom--and release toxic pollens. They bloom--and form Venus flytrap-like pods that swallow animals and people. They bloom--everywhere, unstoppable.Or are they? Three kids on a remote island seem immune to the toxic plants. Anaya,...
Author
Series
Ivy Nichols volume 1
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"If you want to spend a night amid the luxury and charm of the early 20th century, book a room at Hotel 1911. You'll find 28-year-old Ivy Nichols behind the reception desk. The hotel is Ivy's only link to the family that abandoned her when she was a small child. Now, plagued by panic attacks, she pedals her sea-green Schwinn bicycle to work every evening, hoping desperately to hold on to her job. When wealthy, imperious Ms. Swain arrives at the hotel...
17) The allergy solution: unlock the surprising, hidden truth about why you are sick and how to get well
Author
Publisher
Hay House, Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 323 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Takes an in-depth look at how we can balance immunity through nutrition and lifestyle in order to reverse allergies without drugs.