When Russian troops invade Finland during the winter of 1939-40, Marko, a young polio victim determined to keep his homeland free, joins the Finnish Army as a messenger boy.
Ann Fay Honeycutt becomes the man of the house at age thirteen after her father leaves to fight in World War II, forcing Ann to give up her childhood and tend to her family, but when a polio epidemic strikes, Ann faces the most devastating challenge of her life.
Playground director Bucky Cantor struggles to deal with the emotional and physical turmoil he faces as the polio epidemic ravages the children he cares for and about in 1940's Newark, New Jersey.
Presents an overview of polio, covering its history, scope, diagnosis, treatment, research, and prevention; and includes a glossary, a bibliography, and a list of related organizations.
A biography of the Australian nurse who developed a successful method of treating and rehabilitating polio patients and persisted in the struggle, despite ridicule and opposition, to have her methods accepted.
When her eight-year-old neighbor gets polio in 1955, 11-year-old Laurie discovers that her imagination has power as she tells stories during her visits with him and other patients in iron lung machines.
In 1941, circumstances bring together Brick, a boy from New York's apple country, and Mariel, a young girl made shy by her bout with polio, and the two make a journey from Brooklyn back to help Brick's elderly neighbors save their apple crop and to help Mariel learn about her past.
Describes the history of polio, the way it spreads, its major epidemics, treatments such as the iron lung and the Kenny method, and the impact of Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin's vaccines, and includes a time line, glossary, and annotated bibliography.
