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Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
Staying with their aunts over the summer, Neil Cady, his sister Bree, and their new friends Wesley and Eric, set out to explore Graylock Hall, an abandoned psychiatric hospital which is supposed to be haunted by the ghost of Nurse Janet.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
A mordant, wickedly subversive parable set in a mental ward, the novel chronicles the head-on collision between its hell-raising, life-affirming hero Randle Patrick McMurphy and the totalitarian rule of Big Nurse. McMurphy swaggers into the mental ward like a blast of fresh air and turns the place upside down, starting a gambling operation, smuggling in wine and women, and egging on the other patients to join him in open rebellion. But McMurphy's...
Author
Publisher
MIT Press
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
"For more than half the nation's history, vast mental hospitals were a prominent feature of the American landscape. From the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth, over 250 institutions for the insane were built throughout the United States; by 1948, they housed more than a half million patients. The blueprint for these hospitals was set by Pennsylvania hospital superintendant Thomas Story Kirkbride: a central administration building flanked...
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When two children find an injured duck and take it to a veterinarian at an animal hospital, they learn about the work of the hospital and of the doctor as she cares for the duck and other animals.
8) Going home
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
While waiting to leave the hospital, Hugo dreams of adventures with exotic animals in faraway lands.
Author
Series
Ms. Wiz volume 2
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The magical Ms. Wiz helps Jack when he goes to the hospital to have an operation, but the doctors become suspicious when her stethoscope plays disco music, Jack's appendix escapes from its jar, and the children's ward is overrun by mice.
Author
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Doctor Hart gives a guided tour of her veterinary clinic, where she explains such things as what equipment she uses, how she calms animals down, and some of the different problems he treats. Includes an activity and other learning resources.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Reveals that simple surgical instruments, as well as patient wear, are produced for Swedish hospitals in unacceptable working conditions that even leads to environmental destruction. The film shows that Swedish tax money is funding production that violates the human rights of workers in India and Pakistan. Although private companies have been demanding suitable working conditions for the last ten years, Swedish county councils have not any such ethical...
15) Kasey & Ivy
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"In this middle-grade novel, twelve-year-old Kasey spends a month in the geriatric ward of her local hospital and strikes up some unusual friendships."--
16) Motherland
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Filipino
Description
Taking us into the heart of the planet's busiest maternity hospital, the viewer is dropped like an unseen outsider into the hospital's stream of activity. At first, the people are strangers. As the film continues, it's absorbingly intimate, rendering the women at the heart of the story increasingly familiar.
17) Jake
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Formats
Description
When ten-year-old Jake's widowed mother breaks her leg just before Christmas while her sister and best friend are both away, a grandfather Jake barely remembers must come to Baltimore, Maryland, to help a neighbor take care of him.
18) Adam resurrected
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
This star-studded drama follows the story of Adam Stein (Jeff Goldblum, Jurassic Park, The Grand Budapest Hotel), a charismatic patient at a mental institution for Holocaust survivors in Israel, in 1961. He reads minds and confounds his doctors, lead by Dr. Nathan Gross (Derek Jacobi, The King's Speech, Gladiator). Before the war, in Berlin, Adam was an entertainer--cabaret impresario, circus owner, magician, musician--loved by audiences and Nazis...
20) Hospital
Author
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Developed by literacy experts and educators for students in PreK through grade two, this book introduces beginning readers to hospitals through simple, predictable text and related photos"--
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