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3) Deenie
Author
Publisher
Bradbury Press
Pub. Date
[1973]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
A thirteen-year-old girl seemingly destined for a modeling career finds she has a deformation of the spine called scoliosis.
4) Abby's twin
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club volume 104
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
When Abby's twin sister Anna is diagnosed with scoliosis, Abby cannot understand why Anna is shutting her out of her life.
Series
Studies in health technology and informatics volume 135
Publisher
IOS Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Demos Health
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Yoga and Scoliosis: A Journey to Health and Healing is intended to be a source of encouragement, knowledge, and healing for those who have scoliosis and need to treat it, but want to avoid braces and/or surgery. The book looks at scoliosis not as a pathological syndrome but as a spiritual, and metaphysical pattern that embraces the multiple dimensions of the spine (vertical, horizontal, and sagittal). It briefly covers the history and treatment modalities...
Author
Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"This thesis explores how complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) may be utilized by an individual with chronic pain, and is a contribution to the gap in academic literature between medical studies and disability studies. Almost twenty years of the researcher's lived experiences are analyzed from an autoenthnographic perspective, including documenting immersion into different CAM therapies, and two interviews to examine perspectives in memory...
9) Unfolding
Author
Publisher
Blink
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Jonah wishes he could get the girl, but he?s an outcast and she?s the most perfect girl he knows. And their futures seemed destined to fork apart: Jonah?s physical condition is debilitating, and epileptic seizures fill his life with frustration. Whereas Stormi is seemingly carefree, and navigates life by sensing things before they happen. And her most recent premonition is urging her to leave town. When Stormi begs Jonah for help, he finds himself...
10) Braced
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Rachel learns that her scoliosis has worsened and she will need to wear a back brace to keep her spine straight, she is devastated; afraid that she will not be able to play soccer, and terrified that she will not be able to hide her condition from her friends and classmates--but her mother is determined to spare her the spinal fusion surgery that she herself had as a teenager.
11) Fix
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of major surgery, sixteen-year-old Eve struggles with pain, grief, and guilt while becoming increasingly dependent on pain medication, revisiting memories of her best friend, and exploring a potential romance.