Fleabrain loves Franny by Rocklin, Joanne 

BTSB Prebound(Amulet Books, 2014)

BTSB #: 761271 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.3 MG

Genres:

Subjects: Poliomyelitis - Fiction People with disabilities - Fiction Family life - Pennsylvania - Fiction Fleas - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Jews - United States - Fiction Pittsburgh (Pa.) - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: This middle-grade novel takes place in Pittsburgh in 1952-53. The protagonist is Franny, a young girl of imagination, curiosity, and stubbornness. While recovering from polio, she begins a correspondence with a flea named Fleabrain.

Giant-slayer by Lawrence, Iain 

BTSB Prebound(Delacorte Press, 2009)

BTSB #: 550833 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.8 MG RC: 4.3 3-5 Lexile: 700

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Poliomyelitis - Fiction Storytelling - Fiction Imagination - Fiction People with disabilities - Fiction

Summary: When her eight-year-old neighbor gets polio in 1955, 11-year-old Laurie discovers that her imagination has power as she tells stories during her visits with him and other patients in iron lung machines.

Liberty by Larson, Kirby 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2016)

BTSB #: P03534 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


Genres: Historical Fiction Family Life Animals

Subjects: Dogs - Fiction Poliomyelitis - Fiction People with disabilities - Fiction Family life - Louisiana - New Orleans - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Prisoners of war - Fiction Race relations - Fiction Friendship - Fiction World War, 1939-1945 - Fiction New Orleans (La.) - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: In 1940s New Orleans, Fish Elliot is a polio-survivor with a knack for inventing and building things, and his African American neighbor Olympia is a girl with a talent for messing things up, but they are united in an effort to save a starving stray dog they call Liberty--and when Liberty is caged by a nasty farmer, they find an unlikely ally in a German prisoner of war, Erich, who is not much older than the two children.

Pixie pushes on by Bundy, Tamara 

BTSB Prebound(Nancy Paulsen, 2020)

BTSB #: 171662 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 4.8 MG Lexile: 770

Genres: Historical Fiction Family Life

Subjects: Family life - Indiana - Fiction Farm life - Indiana - Fiction Empathy - Fiction Moving - Fiction Poliomyelitis - Fiction Indiana - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: Caring for a runt lamb helps Pixie gain empathy when, in the 1940s, her family moves to her grandparents' farm and her sister Charlotte contracts polio and is sent away.

Pixie pushes on by Bundy, Tamara 

Paperback(Puffin, 2021)

BTSB #: 171667 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 4.8 MG Lexile: 770

Genres: Historical Fiction Family Life

Subjects: Family life - Indiana - Fiction Farm life - Indiana - Fiction Empathy - Fiction Moving - Fiction Poliomyelitis - Fiction Indiana - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: Caring for a runt lamb helps Pixie gain empathy when, in the 1940s, her family moves to her grandparents' farm and her sister Charlotte contracts polio and is sent away.