Booklists for Middle School
		Is There a Doctor in the House?
Medically Themed Titles for Youth and Young Adult Readers

Emergency Room by Caroline Cooney
Two college freshmen, Seth and Diana, sign up as volunteers for City Hospital, believing that it will be a good experience for their future studies in medical school. After a frantic night spent dealing with everything from a motorcycle crash to gunshot wounds, their views about the medical profession are changed forever.

The Bumblebee Flies Anyway by Robert Cormier
Sixteen-year-old Barney Snow is a patient in a hospital that uses experimental drugs and procedures on volunteer, terminally ill patients. When he makes a terrifying discovery about himself, he is driven to reach out to his fellow patients and fulfill a dream that all of them hold dear.

Eva by Peter Dickinson
Thirteen-year-old Eva awakens in a hospital from a coma after a terrible automobile accident which has destroyed much of her body. She knows that her parents and doctors are keeping something from her and they won't even let her look into a mirror. Find out what drastic measures were taken to keep Eva alive.

A Time of Angels by Karen Hesse
The flu epidemic of 1918-19 killed almost 3 times as many people as died during all of WWI. During that time many children were sent from cities to stay with relatives in the countryside, so that they would be safe from infection. When Hannah Gold comes down with the flu while on her way from Boston to Vermont, she is helped by an old German man and a mysterious girl with violet eyes.

A Night Without Stars by James Howe
Terrified Maria Tirone is in the hospital for open-heart surgery and no one is able to calm her fears. Then she meets Donald, who is so badly scarred from burns that the other kids call him Monster Man. Can he move past his bitterness to comfort and befriend Maria?

The Only Alien on the Planet by Kristen D. Randle
When Ginny Christianson's family moves to a new town she starts her senior year of high school without high hopes for finding new friends. Soon a brilliant, very attractive and disturbed classmate known as the Alien catches her attention. Ginny becomes determined to break through his silence and help him rejoin the normal world, but maybe his silence covers secrets to terrible to reveal.

An Acquaintance with Darkness by Ann Rinaldi
The Civil War is finally over, but for Emily Pigbush life is anything but easy. With her father a casualty of the war and her mother a victim of tuberculosis, Emily is forced to seek a new source of security and friendship. Will she choose her uncle, a brilliant doctor accused of grave robbing, or the Surratt family, who caught in the political turmoil of the day?

Izzy, Willy Nilly by Cynthia Voigt
When Izzy's drunken date crashes the car on the way home from a party, Izzy pays the terrible price - her leg is so badly damaged that it must be amputated. Depressed by her condition and abandoned by her friends, Izzy must find the strength to rebuild her life.