What Is the AIDS Crisis? (What Was?)

by Nico Medina (Author) Tim Foley (Illustrator)

Reading Level: 4th − 5th Grade
Series: What Was?

Learn how incredible activists made the public aware of AIDS and spurred medical breakthroughs.

In the early 1980s, the first cases of a devastating and fatal new disease appeared, a disease that at first struck only gay men and was later identified as HIV/AIDS. It was the beginning of what became a worldwide health crisis that the US government ignored for years and that unfairly heightened prejudice against the LGBTQ+ community. To this day, the AIDS Crisis continues to disproportionately affect both the LGBTQ+ community and people of color. Nico Medina has written an accurate and affecting history of a terrible time, spotlighting the heroic efforts of AIDS activists who fought for medical research and new medicines, for proper health care for patients, and for compassionate recognition of people with AIDS.

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Nico Medina
Nico Medina is the author of Where Is Mount Everest? and Where Is Alcatraz? and three books in the Who Was? series.
Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9780593227022
Lexile Measure
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Guided Reading Level
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Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Publication date
May 10, 2022
Series
What Was?
BISAC categories
JNF024020 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Health & Daily Living | Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries
JNF053080 - Juvenile Nonfiction | LGBT
JNF071000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Social Activism & Volunteering
Library of Congress categories
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