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Alex, the Kid with AIDS (An Albert Whitman Prairie Book) Hardcover – June, 1990

by Linda Walvoord Girard (Author), Abby Levine (Editor), Blanche Sims (Illustrator)
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  • Age Range: 7 and up
  • Series: An Albert Whitman Prairie Book
  • Hardcover: 1 pages
  • Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company (June 1990)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0807502456
  • ISBN-13: 978-0807502457
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 8.3 x 0.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #818,784 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 starsA nice story
By A Customer on February 11, 2000
Format: Hardcover
I really enjoyed the way the author handled this issue with regards to the boy Alex, a fourth grader with AIDS. The only part of the book I found disturbing was that of how the teacher reacted to the poem that was written about her. I did not think it was right that she would not enter it into the contest because she did not like it.
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5.0 out of 5 starsAIDS and real children, by Linda Walvoord Girard (de Velder)
By Linda Walvoord on September 27, 2010
Format: Paperback
AIDS comes to real children. That was my thought or "leading idea" in writing this book. I felt when it was published that we had seen a considerable number of responsible books appear for children that taught "the basics," either in straightforward style of a didactic text, or in the framework of a teaching story.

I wanted this title to become part of the emotional side of AIDS education because the hardest problem for elementary age children (and older as well) is not that a classmate has a disease that is "yukky" or mysterious, but, that a classmate is slowly dying. Since the late 80s when I began working on this text, and created a character who at that time was ten, contracting AIDS from a transfusion is less common than it was prior to 1981 (the presumable birth year of a child age 10 in 1991), but even today it is not impossible, and term "blood transfusion" can, of course, mean that a mother, in her twenties, might have become HIV positive from a transfusion up to a decade prior to that, and then, transmit the HIV positive condition to her baby; aside from the simplification I chose in deciding how ALEX got AIDs, I felt the book might have a future because the US population of school age children with AIDS has grown during the 1990s and during the first decade of the 2000s. The last decade has seen so many improvements in our treatments for AIDS in very young children that children born HIV positive who once would have died within months or a couple of years are living longer -- into the upper elementary age group, where ALEX THE KID WITH AIDS is set. And, they can have years of relatively healthy living, while HIV positive and even with AIDS in active status.Read more ›
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1.0 out of 5 starsI ABSOLUTELY LOATHE THIS BOOK!
By A Customer on September 28, 2000
Format: Hardcover
I love Most of Linda Girard's books, but this is the worst children's book I ever touched. It deserves a TURKEY instead of a star. It makes fun of children with AIDS. It says in this book that Alex got AIDS from a transfusion. It is no longer possible to get AIDS from blood transfusions because all donated blood is tested for HIV and AIDS. Don't waste your money on this piece of junk. Insteas buy the CD "For Our Children."
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