What Is the AIDS Crisis? (What Was?)

by Nico Medina (Author) Tim Foley (Illustrator)

Reading Level: 4^th − 5^th 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

Guided Reading Level

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

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