Red Madness
How a Medical Mystery Changed What We Eat

This book was a true page turner. It would be a great book talk for middle schoolers who aren't likely to pick it up on their own because 1. Its super gross. 2. Its a disease you've never heard of, but you WILL find yourself wondering if you can "catch it." 3. Pictures add to the grossness. 4. It's fun......more

This is another book read for my grad school class. Not quite as gross as the zombie bug one, but close. It's a timeline of a disease presented as a mystery, as the death toll rises and doctors scramble to find the cause and the cure. Since this is happening in the early 1900's, they are seriously h......more

Here's a nonfiction book that not only shows the scientific method, but describes the pellegra mystery, a disease that killed 100,000 people and afflicted over 3 million in America during the early 1900s. Today, doctors don't see cases of pellegra. The author shows how early researchers and doctors......more

A real life medical mystery that keeps the reader turning the page to see how this medical mystery was solved. Doctors in the United States first realized that they they had a red rash that was killing people and quickly becoming an epidemic in 1902. How they worked to solve the mystery of the red r......more

Fascinating look at a little known medical epidemic, pellagra, which hit the United States south very hard in the early 1900s. The target audience is definitely middle school and up, but honestly this book is perfect for anyone with a passing interest in the subject. I learned a LOT about that time......more