Did you know that people have brain sorters that keep their brains from getting cluttered with unnecessary thoughts?

Sometimes these brain sorters get mixed up, though, and brains get clogged with thoughts that really bother kids. If that has happened to you, if it's hard for you to feel safe or sure of yourself because certain thoughts have gotten stuck, this book is for you. What to Do When Your Brain Gets Stuck guides children and their parents through the cognitive-behavioral techniques used to treat obsessive compulsive disorder.

This interactive self-help book turns kids into super-sleuths who can recognize and more appropriately respond to OCD's tricks. With engaging examples, activities, and step-by-step instructions, it helps children master the skills needed to break free from OCD's sticky thoughts and urges and live happier lives. This What-to-Do Guide is the complete resource for educating, motivating, and empowering children to work toward change.

A propulsive nonfiction look at the elite squads of scientists, doctors, and infectious disease experts who guard the boundary between public health and pandemics and how they gather data via boots on the ground shoe-leather epidemiology in order to save lives.

Perfect for fans of Steve Sheinkin and Deborah Heiligman!

Picture a detective. What comes to mind? A fast-talking private eye, interrogating a suspect? Or Sherlock Holmes, in his deerstalker hat, discovering clues to catch a killer?

Now imagine that the suspect isn't a person but a microscopic menace--a deadly virus or bacteria making people sick. What kind of detective does it take to nab a biological assassin, invisible to the naked eye?

Just like detectives, epidemiologists--scientists who study how diseases emerge and spread--interview witnesses and gather clues to identify the cause of illness, locate those who are sick, and uncover the sources of outbreaks to stop them in their tracks.

From a quickly spreading cholera outbreak in 1880s London, to a mystery illness in New Mexico that stumped investigators, to the development of the vaccines to fight COVID-19 and more, join acclaimed author Amy Cherrix on a journey to explore the past, present, and future of virus hunting as the world's greatest disease detectives race to crack the medical codes that lead to cures.

Common childhood illnesses and injuries and the methods to cure or treat them can lead to questions. This book offers answers, showing how people learned how to understand and care for the human body, from ancient times to the present day. Young readers will travel back in time--sometimes thousands of years--to cultures all over the globe to learn how and why medical breakthroughs occurred. They'll meet key people from medical history along the way, including early surgeons working without anesthesia and grave robbers seeking knowledge of human anatomy. The science behind antibiotics and how stitches work are two of many topics in this fascinating book, which includes projects and activities for both the classroom and home.

★ Rae provides all the information readers want to know [and] skillfully broaches the topic of anti-vaccination...An engaging and informative nonfiction text with all the facts about vaccinations. A must-have for middle school libraries. -- School Library Journal (SLJ), starred review

Vaccination is one of humanity's most effective and greatest discoveries.

Infections like the plague, smallpox and other deadly diseases have affected and killed people for thousands of years, but the invention of vaccines forever changed our relationship with these diseases. More recently the urgency of developing an effective vaccine during the COVID-19 pandemic brought vaccination to the public's attention. Simmering tensions around vaccine hesitancy, misinformation and mistrust of science came to the forefront.

Although an earlier form of protection against infectious diseases has been practiced for a long time, vaccines have only been around for 200 years. Why We Need Vaccines explores the history of vaccine discovery, the science of how vaccines work and the public-health achievements that vaccines have made possible. It also discusses vaccine mandates and inequality in access to vaccines on local and global scales. It challenges young readers to take responsibility for themselves, their families and their communities so we can all be part of the solution to take down infectious diseases.

The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.

The most selfless gift . . .

My Generous Sister Lexi, told from the perspective of Lexi's younger sister, Jordan, tells the story of one young child's journey through the process of losing a loved one. Written by two longtime Certified Child Life Specialists, the simple story line is relatable for children of all ages and all faiths who are learning to cope with tragedy in their personal lives.

The authors have felt the need for a book like this for so many years in their own work that they created one themselves! In their careers, Heather and Emily have helped many families understand and come to accept the value of organ donation. They hope their book will help families in need, especially children, who are struggling to understand and accept their new normal.

Ben has cancer, but he also has a loving family and friends, a community fighting for him--and hope.

When Ben finds out he has cancer, he learns a lot right away. He learns that cancer is something you fight, and that cancer isn't anyone's fault--especially not his. He discovers that many things change with cancer, but some of the most important things stay the same, and everyone around him wants to help him fight.

When Sara Olsher was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 34, her first thought was how to tell her six-year-old daughter without scaring her. As it turned out, explaining cancer was only the beginning. Treatment is long and causes a lot of ongoing changes in the family-all of which can be confusing, scary, and isolating for kids.

Join Mia and her stuffed giraffe Stuart as they explain the science of cancer and how a loved one's diagnosis and treatment affects a kid's day-to-day life. What Happens When Someone I Love Has Cancer? uses bright and fun illustrations to show how cells can turn into cancer, and helps reduce confusion about how cancer treatment affects a person and the kids in their lives.

Most of the time we do the same things in the mornings. We wake up. We eat breakfast. (I like apples. Stuart only eats bugs.) ... when something big changes, what we do each day can change too. Stuart wants to know what happens to our days when someone we love has cancer.

Aimed at families with kids ages 4 to 10, this method of teaching is based on decades of solid science about how kids learn and cope with the major day-to-day changes that result from issues like cancer. What Happens When Someone I Love Has Cancer? is the perfect book for families that want to explain what cancer actually is and how it affects a kid's life, and applies to mothers, fathers, grandparents, siblings, and many types of cancer, including breast cancer, colon cancer, blood cancers such as leukemia, and bone cancers.

By creating a routine that kids can see and understand, parents can restore a sense of safety and predictability in their kids' lives, helping them to be more resilient in the face of life's inevitable challenges. What Happens When Someone I Love Has Cancer? helps families that want to reduce their kids' anxiety surrounding a scary diagnosis. It aims to empower kids with knowledge, which is proven to help kids through traumatic situations.

Meet Mia and Stuart

With her messy pigtails and sunny personality, Mia brings a bit of fun to books about hard topics. Explaining life's toughest stuff to her toy giraffe Stuart, Mia is the star of the What About Me? book series, where she's able to help kids feel safe by explaining exactly what they can expect when faced with big changes.

My Port is a short book about a child who has an implantable venous access port. It is useful for helping chidren become familiar with cancer therapy or any serious illness requiring port access.

This is a kids' book about cancer. As you may know already, cancer doesn't just affect those who have it; it affects their parents, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, and friends.

This book was made to give kids aged 5-9 a basic understanding of what cancer really is, and aims to make it easier to talk about for kids and grownups who may have someone in their life with cancer.

A Kids Book About Cancer features:

• A large and bold, yet minimalist font design that allows kids freedom to imagine themselves in the words on the pages.
• A friendly, approachable, empowering, and child-appropriate tone throughout.
• An incredible and diverse group of authors in the series who are experts or have first-hand experience of the topic.

The A Kids Book About titles are best used when read together. Helping to kickstart important, challenging, and empowering conversations for kids and their grown-ups through beautiful and thought-provoking pages. The series supports an incredible and diverse group of authors, who are either experts in their field, or have first-hand experience on the topic.

A Kids Co. is a new kind of media company enabling kids to explore big topics in a new and engaging way, with a growing series of books, podcasts, and blogs made to empower. Learn more about us online by searching for A Kids Co.

Sickle cell disease is the most common inherited blood disease in the world. But it hasn't received the funding and research needed to find a cure. Why? Because those who have it tend to be people whose voices have been historically silenced. Learn more about sickle cell disease and then, share what you know. When we are informed, we can work together toward a healthy and more inclusive future for everyone!

Core themes in this book:

Empathy, Hope, Illness, Prejudice

Meet A Kids Co., a new kind of media company with a collection of beautifully designed books that kickstart challenging, empowering, and important conversations for kids and their grownups.

Someone You Love Has Cancer: A Child's Guide to Understanding provides a platform for conversation between parents and children, as well as teachers and their students. This educational poem was written to empower children and ease their anxiety by opening meaningful conversations based on facts.

A Child's Guide comes with a Glossary of Terms, as well as fundraising ideas and instructions on how to create a Memory Box.

Robin Martin Duttmann is an award-winning author, poet, and creative writing teacher for children at The Windsor International Writers Conference.

Her book Zoo on the Moon received Honorable Mention at the 2013 Purple Dragonfly Literary Awards of Arizona, for best new Children's Picture Book ages five and younger. Her second book June Bug Jamboree received the same award at the Royal Dragonfly Book Awards in 2014. In the summer of 2014, Zoo on the Moon was selected for primary science curriculum in 147 countries by the IBLibrary.com in its newly developed primary year program.

In October 2015, the author was a contributor to Chicken Soup for the Soul's Think Possible.

She also recently underwent treatment for triple negative breast cancer. With her positive, can-do attitude, she and a group of other women modeled for the Cancer Center's billboards and posters during a one-month fundraising event that brought over $71,000 directly to the Windsor Regional Cancer Center, Ontario, Canada.

This book was made possible with contributions from Rosser Reeves Jewellers in honour of family, friends, and customers whose lives have been touched by cancer.

www.rosserreeves.com

Publisher's website: http: //sbpra.com/RobinMartin-Duttmann/

From New York Times bestselling author Lindsey Fitzharris, a riveting middle grade nonfiction book about diseases that have shaped the course of human history.

* Chock-full of awesomely appalling medical history. -Shelf Awareness, starred review
* Engaging, informative, but also gross. -School Library Journal, starred review

School Library Journal Best Book of 2023
Cybils 2023 Nonfiction Middle Grade Finalist
2024 Best STEM Books Award from National Science Teaching Association
2024 Grateful American Book Prize Honorable Mention

Smallpox! Rabies! Black Death! Throughout history humankind has been plagued by . . . well, by plagues. The symptoms of these diseases were gruesome-but the remedies were even worse.

Get to know the ickiest illnesses that have infected humans and affected civilizations through the ages. Each chapter explores the story of a disease, including the scary symptoms, kooky cures, and brilliant breakthroughs that it spawned. Medical historian and bestselling author Lindsey Fitzharris lays out the facts with her trademark wit, and Adrian Teal adds humor with cartoons and caricatures drawn in pitch black and blood red. Diseases covered in this book include bubonic plague, smallpox, rabies, tuberculosis, cholera, and scurvy.

Thanks to centuries of sickness and a host of history's most determined plague-busters, this riveting book features everything you've ever wanted to know about the world's deadliest diseases.

A timely and simple explanation of the science behind germs, from the #1 science author for kids

Germ Theory for Babies is an engaging, basic introduction for youngsters (and grownups!) to the complex questions of what germs are and how they spread. Full of scientific information and written by experts, this newest installment of the Baby University board book series is perfect for enlightening the next generation of geniuses about the science of germs. After all, it's never too early to become a scientist!

When someone you love is very ill, it can affect the whole family. Join your Sesame Street friends to learn ways to stay connected to loved ones when they are sick.

Did you know there are over 7,000 known rare diseases? Follow our narrator, Effie, as she uses the alphabet to explain 26 rare diseases in a scientifically accurate, but easy to understand, way.

Featured rare diseases include: Aicardi Syndrome, Baraitser Winter Syndrome, CDKL5 Deficiency Disorder, Desanto-Shinawi Syndrome, Ectodermal Dysplasia, FOXG1 Syndrome, Glycogen storage disease, Hemimegalencephaly, Infantile Bullous Pemphigoid, Joubert Syndrome, Kabuki Syndrome, Leukodystrophy/Leuden Syndrome, Moebius Syndrome, Non-ketotic hyperglycinemia, Osteogenesis Imperfecta, Prader Willi Syndrome, 22Q13- Phelan McDermid Syndrome, Russell Silver Syndrome, Sanfilippo Syndrome, Tuberous Sclerosis Complex, undiagnosed, Vein of Galen Malformation, Wolf Hirschhorn Syndrome, Xia-Gibbs Syndrome, PYROXD-1, and Zimmerman Laband syndrome.

Rare Disease from A to Z is the second book in the series by Simply Comply Stories. By presenting medical diagnoses and disabilities in a relatable but accurate way, Simply Complex Stories equips children (and adults) with empathy and understanding, fostering a more inclusive world. Learn more at simplycomplexstories.com or by following along on Instagram at @simplycomplexstories

While the coronavirus COVID-19 changed the world in 2020, it still isn't the largest and deadliest pandemic in history. That title is held by the Plague. This disease, also known as the Black Death, spread throughout Asia, Africa, and Europe in the fourteenth century and claimed an astonishing 50 million lives by the time it officially ended. Author Roberta Edwards takes readers back to these grimy and horrific years, explaining just how this pandemic began, how society reacted to the disease, and the impact it left on the world.

With 80 black-and-white illustrations and an engaging 16-page photo insert, readers will be excited to read this latest additon to Who HQ!

The author was diagnosed with cancer at eleven years old.

Over the next twenty years, he faced four back surgeries, three recurrences, two lifetime doses of radiation, and a seemingly endless number of MRI scans and doctor's visits.

This guide is the culmination of his journey-a way to reach out to children facing similar challenges.

If this book helps even one child who thinks they are alone, the author believes it will all have been worth it.

Now we celebrate because Mommy doesn't have breast cancer anymore...

Corey Jr. is a nine-year-old from Saint Louis, Missouri, who has chosen to share his journey during his mother's battle with breast cancer. Corey and his mom, Anastasia, wish to share this journey with you. Key takeaways from this book are to always be kind, always show love and always be thankful for your family.