The Polio Pioneer

The Polio Pioneer
Author: Linda Elovitz Marshall
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2020-08-18
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0525646531

A SYDNEY TAYLOR NOTABLE BOOK • Learn about the importance of vaccines and the scientific process through the fascinating life of world-renowned scientist Jonas Salk, whose pioneering discoveries changed the world forever. Dr. Jonas Salk is one of the most celebrated doctors and medical researchers of the 20th century. The child of immigrants who never learned to speak English, Jonas was struck by the devastation he saw when the soldiers returned from battle after WWII. Determined to help, he worked to become a doctor and eventually joined the team that created the influenza vaccine. But Jonas wanted to do more. As polio ravaged the United States--even the president was not immune!--Jonas decided to lead the fight against this terrible disease. In 1952, Dr. Jonas Salk invented the polio vaccine, which nearly eliminated polio from this country. For the rest of his life, Dr. Salk continued to do groundbreaking medical research at the Salk Institute, leaving behind a legacy that continues to make the world a better place every day. This compelling picture book biography sheds light on Dr. Salk's groundbreaking journey and the importance of vaccination.

The Pioneer's Way

The Pioneer's Way
Author: Jennifer Hayden Epperson
Publisher: Bombardier Books
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2020-10-20
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1642934585

Senseless school shootings, cure-defying epidemics, threats of environmental disaster: these are the kinds of headlines that riddle the news every day. The challenges we face range from the horrific to the heartbreaking. We wonder, when will it stop? Frustration and fear won’t bring about beneficial change. Passionate men and women are needed to step into the gap and serve as change agents even though many assume that there are few areas left in which to innovate. While many advances have been made, there is still a need for everyday people to create, innovate, and impact their spheres of influence to advance the common good. Motivated by curiosity, conviction, and a conquering spirit, they can move to fill unoccupied spaces to nurture, persuade, understand, and solve some of society’s lingering dilemmas. Those who do the initial significant work in these areas are the ones who bring about such needed change. They are pioneers. The Pioneer’s Way establishes a working definition of the pioneer, explores pioneering versus leadership, and offers essential characteristics of the pioneer. These are illustrated by colorful examples of pioneers both past and present—motivating readers with inspirational, frontiering stories, while equipping them with the journey’s essentials for moving forward to make needed, significant change. Readers will journey down a systematic path that will help them navigate unfamiliar territory so they too can respond to the pioneer’s call and answer it through effective, beneficial action in both their lives and the lives they touch.

Bulletin

Bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 956
Release: 1935
Genre: Geology
ISBN:

Pioneer Girl

Pioneer Girl
Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Publisher:
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2021
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781941813096

"A side-by-side textual comparison of the three surviving typescript revisions of "Pioneer Girl" that uses the texts themselves to draw inferences about Laura Ingalls Wilder's authorial and Rose Wilder Lane's editorial processes and intentions, as well as about the working relationship between the two women during their attempts to market "Pioneer Girl" as adult nonfiction, prior to the publication of Wilder's Little House novels that are based on these original manuscripts"--

Pioneer History

Pioneer History
Author: Samuel Prescott Hildreth
Publisher:
Total Pages: 590
Release: 1848
Genre: Indians of North America
ISBN:

Pioneer Cat

Pioneer Cat
Author: William H. Hooks
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1988
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780394920382

When a young pioneer girl smuggles a cat aboard the wagon train taking her family from Missouri to Oregon, it turns out to be the best thing she could have done.