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Lead poisoning, also known as plumbism and saturnism, is a type of metal poisoning caused by lead in the body. [ 2 ] Symptoms may include abdominal pain, constipation, headaches, irritability, memory problems, infertility, and tingling in the hands and feet. [ 1 ] It causes almost 10% of intellectual disability of otherwise unknown cause and ...
Milkweed. (novel) 208pp. Milkweed is a 2003 young adult historical fiction novel by American author Jerry Spinelli. The book is about a boy in Warsaw, Poland in the years of World War II during the Holocaust. Over time he is taken in by a Jewish group of orphans and he must avoid the Nazis (or "Jackboots") while living on the streets with other ...
The perpetrators killed all the adults and older children in the group, in the end sparing only seventeen young children under the age of seven. [ a ] Following the massacre, the perpetrators buried some of the remains but ultimately left most of the bodies exposed to wild animals and the climate.
PZ7.A953 Sm 1988. Something Upstairs (also published as Something Upstairs: A Tale of Ghosts) is a 1988 young adult historical thriller fiction novel written by Avi. It concerns a 12-year-old boy named Kenny Huldorf who has moved to a new area and discovers a ghost, Caleb, in a room. Caleb was the slave of a previous owner of the home, and is ...
ISBN. 9781534496194. Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World is a New York Times best selling young adult novel by Benjamin Alire Sáenz, published October 12, 2021 by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. It is the sequel to Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe. The audiobook read by Lin-Manuel Miranda was ...
Written when he was 50, Darkwater is the first of Du Bois's three autobiographies and was followed by Dusk of Dawn: An Autobiography of a Race Concept, and The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of its First Century.
We, in the West, are accustomed to say that "blood is thicker than water"; but the Arabs have the idea that blood is thicker than milk, than a mother's milk. With them, any two children nourished at the same breast are called "milk-brothers," or "sucking brothers"; and the tie between such is very strong.
Unwind is a dystopian novel by Neal Shusterman.It takes place in the United States in the near future. After the Second Civil War ("The Heartland War") was fought over abortion, a compromise was reached, allowing parents to sign an order for their children between the ages of 13 and 18 to be "unwound" — taken to "harvest camps" and dissected into their body parts for later use.