[AISLE-Share] Books Similiar to Phineas Gage

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*Unthinkable: An Extraordinary Journal Through the World's Strangest Brains
*by Thomson
*Terrible Typhoid Mary* by Bartoletti
*Guinea Pig Scientists* by Mel Boring
*I Feel Better with a Frog in my Throat* by Beccia
*Aging with Grace* by Snowdon (written for adults, but very narrative and
readable for a high schooler)

Michelle Harris
Heyworth CUSD #4


On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 3:22 PM Email list for the Association of Illinois
School Library Educators <aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> Hi AISLE Hive Mind,
> I have a special needs student that is looking for a book similar to *Phineas
> Gage: A Gruesome but true story about brain science*. He was looking for
> a medical book last year about brain injury and that was the first one that
> came time mind. He liked it so much that he checked it out and read it
> again. He's now looking for another similar book. He is still interested in
> brain injury but he was also asking about books about blood, red blood
> cells, maybe the immune system. Anything medical would probably work. Are
> there any DK books that examine a topic and present it in a narrative
> format? I'm also going to try giving him *Invincible Microbe:
> Tuberculosis and the never-ending search for a cure*.
>
> Any recommendations are appreciated.
>
> Christopher Rios
> Librarian
> Downers Grove South High School
>
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Michelle Harris
District Librarian
Heyworth CUSD #4

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